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

highly associated to a given date. A lot of our posts are. Release announcements and weekly newsletters in particular. I personally don't see the problem with dates in URLs. I don't see any problem with not having them, either. But I do see a problem with changing the URL scheme: potential dead links, SEO nightmare... We would need a damn good reason to do it, and I'm not sure those you mentioned are enough... On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 at 12:29 Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hi, > > highly associated to a given date. > > In our case, the data works against us as people might think an article is > outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that > a 3 year-old article might not be relevant anymore. > > It's better if we use simple slug names that capture the article focus > keywords and remove the date altogether. > > Vlad > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 10:23 AM, Gunnar Morling <gunnar(a)hibernate.org&gt; > wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > -- Yoann Rodiere yoann(a)hibernate.org / yrodiere(a)redhat.com Software Engineer Hibernate NoORM team