883481 - Enable publishing with project title in URL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Popcorn Maker, defect)

Description

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

Due to lack of time, publishing has only been enabled with short URLs: https://jon.makes.org/popcorn/asdf

We should be able to use the project title to publish to https://jon.makes.org/popcorn/something-awesome .

Comment 2

[Jacob [:Jacob]]

Is there a technical architectural reason why we need to have /popcorn or /thimble preceding the publish URLs?

If not, it's my humble opinion that it would be a significant improvement to not have them.

The reason being that when I verbalize to a friend to check out jake.makes.org/panda it's something that they can remember. If I have to verbalize jake.makes.org/popcorn/panda it's that one extra word that's going to make the difference between remembering and not remembering.

I think there's a lot of great branding that can be done with name.makes.org/title and helps prove our theory that the open web is still wild and there's still great addresses out there.

Comment 3

[Jon Buckley [:jbuck]]

Yeah, it's something that we want to fix for sure. I'll file another bug to implement that.

Comment 4

[Brett Gaylor [:brett]]

After some discussion, the platform considerations of doing this are actually quite high. Marking as wontfix