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Piefed finally fixes Lemmy’s ugly post URLs (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you see this? https://piefed.social/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It worked in Boost, but on Lemmy UI it doesn't linkify the whole thing

You would think markdown would work, but no, these somehow have the same issue:

https://piefed.social/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ok we're now generating links like this instead https://piefed.social/c/politics/p/1385905/will-the-supreme-court-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That does work! What about if it's a remote community? Does it just use the post ID number to determine what instance it's actually from?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only part of the url that actually does anything is p/1385905 which functions the same way piefed.social/post/1385905 does. So that /c/politics bit has no effect on which post is displayed and it could be any string of gibberish. There are communities called 'politics' on many instances and this url scheme doesn't differentiate between them, but I'm ok with that.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 months ago

I think that's pretty standard for URL slugs

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, interesting. I think having a '@' in the url is going to be a problem for a lot of different software. I'll remove that part.

[–] mapto@feddit.it 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe the @ could be replaced by "at", just for legibility and transparency? Of course, there's always URL escapes, but that's for clients to do

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

@sjmarf@lemmy.ml @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml I get the following error when clicking this link in Mlem:

Optional(No entity returned in response.)

[–] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, we’ll add support for the new link format 👍

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

I have removed the @ now, perhaps that'll make it easier for you.