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

[Gunnar Morling]

Note I'm not suggesting to change any existing URLs. Rather my question is,
should we go to the date-less schema for new posts going forward.

2018-03-22 13:24 GMT+01:00 Yoann Rodiere <yoann at hibernate.org>:

> > 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 outdated by just inspecting the slug and thinking that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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