Piefed now generates human-readable post URLs instead of those random ID strings. This issue has been around on Lemmy for ages with no real progress from core devs. At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.
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Who cares about URL legibility in 2025? 😂 Aren’t you guys busy making like 7 different apps where URLs are even less visible?
“Issue”? This is just a design choice. Im sorry this was causing you distress. Who cares about URL legibility? Lol.
Also what the fuck do you mean “you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.” You can go read their monthly updates! You can go read their github page and track their actual issues.
Lol piss off.
Nobody really sees URLs anymore, they are always behind links, so making them more readable has basically no effect.
Can you see this? https://piefed.social/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls
It worked in Boost, but on Lemmy UI it doesn’t linkify the whole thing
You would think markdown would work, but no, these somehow have the same issue:
https://piefed.social/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls
https://piefed.social/c/lemmy@lemmy.ml/p/1384152/piefed-finally-fixes-lemmys-ugly-post-urls
Ok we’re now generating links like this instead https://piefed.social/c/politics/p/1385905/will-the-supreme-court-hand-government-contractors-blanket-immunity
That does work! What about if it’s a remote community? Does it just use the post ID number to determine what instance it’s actually from?
The only part of the url that actually does anything is p/1385905 which functions the same way piefed.social/post/1385905 does. So that /c/politics bit has no effect on which post is displayed and it could be any string of gibberish. There are communities called ‘politics’ on many instances and this url scheme doesn’t differentiate between them, but I’m ok with that.
Oh, interesting. I think having a ‘@’ in the url is going to be a problem for a lot of different software. I’ll remove that part.
@sjmarf@lemmy.ml @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml I get the following error when clicking this link in Mlem:
Optional(No entity returned in response.)Thanks, we’ll add support for the new link format 👍
I have removed the
now, perhaps that’ll make it easier for you.
I prefer them if that means anything. I prefer them readable that is.
At this point, you have to wonder what the Lemmy dev team is focusing on.
things that actually matter, probably
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I like shorter URLs 🤷
