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

[Yoann Rodiere]

> The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are
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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The data in the post slug only makes sense for news sites where posts are
> 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 outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that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 at hibernate.org>
> 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
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Yoann Rodiere
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Software Engineer
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