[hibernate-dev] Why do we have the date in the URL of blog posts?

Hi, While talking to a few bloggers from the Java ecosphere at JavaLand last week, the question came up why we have the date in the URL of blog posts. Arguably, it doesn't add value there (we show the date on the actual posts themselves), and makes the URLs slightly worse to read. In particular, we don't allow for browsing posts by year or month (e.g. http://in.relation.to/2018/), so it's even a bit misleading. Omitting the date would also make the original idea of the URL fly again ("in relation to xyz"). Anyone with thoughts whether we should change the scheme (keeping existing ones of course)? That all said, I've no idea whether the date in there is good to have or not in terms of SEO. I suppose it doesn't matter. --Gunnar