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fixed / permanent URLs
User Interface (UI) / User Experience (UX) · Articles & templates · Created by T_WA
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Because every article URL is made up of article title, world title, and even WA Username (of the world owner), these URLs are rather volatile. As someone who has a tendency to rename things and likes to share my articles to a variety of people, this has been an issue for me on more than one occasion.So I suggest a way of having some fixed URL for each article that never updates - and no, I'm not talking about the custom URLs feature you get with a Sage membership. First of all, the Sage rank is quite expensive (not saying WA should make any less money, btw), and secondly, even custom URLs may be changed, in which case somebody with an old link could possibly hit a dead end.
A solution
Every article has a UUID that doesn't change. Through this, more permanent URLs could be created. Rather as a replacement for how URLs are constructed currently, however, my suggestion would be that URLs made with these UUIDs would instead redirect to the current "proper" URL of the article with that UUID.(yes, second shot at this because first time I was super unclear and excluded a lot of relevant information. Thanks, Dimi <3)
The Team's Response
This suggestion did not reach the required level of support during its voting period.
Current score
31/300 Votes · +4770 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by A Sneaky Elf
on 2021-07-06 02:52 -
+200
by Germophile
on 2021-07-04 20:28 -
+200
by PhilosoShy
on 2021-07-04 18:43 -
+200
by A Mischievous Skeleton
on 2021-07-02 23:08 -
+50
by decoy26
on 2021-06-27 12:50 -
+10
by Kierkagaard
on 2021-06-27 00:02 -
+10
by ka_jan
on 2021-06-23 12:45 -
+50
by A Uncontrollable T-Rex
on 2021-06-22 22:58 -
+20
by Saauan
on 2021-06-22 19:27 -
+100
by Lenosallose
on 2021-06-20 13:08 -
+300
by blurrito
on 2021-06-20 09:09 -
+10
by crazykid080
on 2021-06-19 23:49 -
+50
by stormworlds
on 2021-06-19 18:38 -
+100
by redbeardcreator
on 2021-06-19 15:45This would be great for referencing articles from outside WA. While I'm not a fan of UUID-style URLs (they're unreadable standing alone), they have the advantage of being forever URLs. For AvalonFaery, it is a rather simple thing to set up a web server to redirect a web browser from one URL (the UUID-style) to the canonical URL (the one WA currently uses)
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+300
by Amanda Barylski
on 2021-06-19 00:53 -
+300
by katieplays
on 2021-06-18 19:23 -
+300
by TayroWinters
on 2021-06-18 09:47 -
+100
by TheStoryBeard
on 2021-06-18 02:14 -
+200
by ThePathSpider
on 2021-06-17 18:44 -
+20
by BetaThetaOmega
on 2021-06-17 08:57 -
-10
by 13Emperor37
on 2021-06-17 08:15This is already possible... Just write an "@" followed by the name of the article. The link is permanent.
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+100
by Michael Chandra
on 2021-06-17 07:53 -
+100
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+10
by Lyraine Alei
on 2021-06-17 01:45 -
+300
by A Glamorous Skeleton
on 2021-06-17 00:26 -
+50
by AvalonFaery
on 2021-06-17 00:10I am still a little confused about how this would be implemented, but this does seem like something that would be very beneficial.
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+300
by denversg1
on 2021-06-16 23:13 -
+100
by Vulthuryol
on 2021-06-16 22:56 -
+300
by Horonor
on 2021-06-16 21:49 -
+300
by SoulLink
on 2021-06-16 21:00 -
+100
by eyekona
on 2021-06-16 20:30 -
+300
by T_WA
on 2021-06-16 18:05
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