🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, May 10, 2017 12:29 PM UTC:
I'm thinking of creating a new set of semantic URLs, using either /game/ or /rules/. Since this site is all about games, the use of /game/ seems too generic. So, I'm leaning toward /rules/. This would be used for pages on this site that describe the rules of a game, and it would be followed by the game's GameID, which is a new thing we've started working on. Unlike ItemIDs, which are generally for particular pages, and which do not follow any standardized naming conventions, the GameID would usually be a lowercase version of the game's name with hyphens in place of spaces and the nearest ASCII characters in place of foreign characters. In a few cases, the GameID would include something extra for disambiguation with another GameID for a game with the same name. The purpose behind the GameID will be to more easily group together pages on the same game and to provide a basis for suitable semantic URLs. The /rules/, or possibly /game/, semantic URLs would replace /invention/ and /report/ for member-submitted games, and it would also work for HTML pages, giving URLs more consistency than they currently have. Any thoughts or opinions before I proceed further with this?
I'm thinking of creating a new set of semantic URLs, using either /game/ or /rules/. Since this site is all about games, the use of /game/ seems too generic. So, I'm leaning toward /rules/. This would be used for pages on this site that describe the rules of a game, and it would be followed by the game's GameID, which is a new thing we've started working on. Unlike ItemIDs, which are generally for particular pages, and which do not follow any standardized naming conventions, the GameID would usually be a lowercase version of the game's name with hyphens in place of spaces and the nearest ASCII characters in place of foreign characters. In a few cases, the GameID would include something extra for disambiguation with another GameID for a game with the same name. The purpose behind the GameID will be to more easily group together pages on the same game and to provide a basis for suitable semantic URLs. The /rules/, or possibly /game/, semantic URLs would replace /invention/ and /report/ for member-submitted games, and it would also work for HTML pages, giving URLs more consistency than they currently have. Any thoughts or opinions before I proceed further with this?