Posts URLs: static or dynamic?
 

Hi:

I usually keep records, in my local files, containing references to LQ posts. These references are the post URL which I know are static (I mean, they do not change with time). But for how long would such a reference be valid? I.e., can these URLs change in the predictable future?

It's possible if the software is modified, but with the same code base, they will remain the same. The link format was changed about oooh... 4 years ago maybe, adding in the portion of the thread title AFAIR, so the URL had more integrity than just being a number, made it impossible to just crawl all the threads sequentially.

Like always in all sort of things. Trying to improve it we get it worse, a thing I can see when shopping. Well, I think I'll use the thread title instead and thanks for your useful, I mean it, information.

This makes me remember the law suit against Intel which resulted in its having to change numbers for names for the designation of its IA architecture processors. A thing cascade9 saw as a useful thing but which I do not. I.e., they have numbers for family, model and stepping, and an Intel Celeron could be just family 6, model 11, stepping 1.

Hmm? Pretty sure I've said there are no plans for it to change, and I don't see what more I can say other than that. Jeremy may well be able to make a stronger confirmation about it though I guess. Maybe he would be able to ensure existing URLS always work even if the format is adjusted at some point.

Well, you said it had changed 4 years ago. I do not see any reason why it wont again in four more years.

All URI's at LQ will work indefinitely. While we changed the link format a few years back, all old URI's still work, they simply redirect to the new format.

--jeremy

Thanks Jeremy.