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forwardslash  ·  3822 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Three Common Complaints from New Users

    The first is that the URLs aren't "pretty". There is often a "?id=" on URLs, which only saves four characters when removed, but it's an annoying four characters. Obviously, I don't know how your systems work so I assume this is more complicated than a bunch of RewriteRules. A few past posts indicate that it's not that simple.

I very much understand the want for pretty urls. Some urls are probably just a few rewriterules away from being pretty but we have some legacy issues preventing us from just implementing it. We use nginx as well as HAProxy for hubski, and then we use piwik which is using apache, and both of these need to be accessible from the hubski.com root domain, mostly because we didn't shell out for a wildcard SSL certificate. Also we do some weird things with custom feed and such. We could probably write around these edge cases but I'm just putting that energy into a rewrite of hubski which will have pretty urls.