Re: [pgsql-www] Excessive # usage in URLs

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:57:10AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Magnus Hagander (magnus(at)hagander(dot)net) wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> > wrote:
> > > In fact, we could have a <a name> for each of those two, so that one could
> > > still use the other one if building URLs elsewhere, but the ones generated
> > > in the archives could use the shorter id. That's a number that goes up to
> > > max 6 digits at this point (and that would actually be guaranteed to be
> > > stable in the future, unlike just using the sequential)
> >
> > So, do I win anything for best zombie thread back from the dead today?
>
> I think you do.
>
> > It's only been a few years, so I've now actually done this in the shape of
> > two tiny commits and I think totaling 11 lines :)
> >
> > Basically, now:
> > * If you navigate to the first message in a thread, no redirect at all is
> > done
>
> Woooo!!!!
>
> > * If you navigate to another message, there is a redirect to the # url but
> > using the md5 of the messageid keeping a lot shorter than your average
> > gmail messageid
>
> Yay.

Yes, those URLs were getting very long to post in emails.

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