Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to OACS site bboard migration to OACS4

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Posted by MaineBob OConnor on

I'm a 3x guy and haven't gotten to look closely at OACS4 yet. I did notice that the new bboard urls look like: (for example)

http://openacs.museatech.net/community/forums/message?message_id=5202&forum_id=5110

This looks substantiallly different than the 3x version. It looks like the message_id is all numeric and topic (forum) text has been removed.

It's probably late in the process but I think that it would be more useful to have NO urlvars in the URL and instead have pseudo file names like:

http://openacs.museatech.net/community/forums/message=5204/

...where /message=5204/ is a pseudo file name. This will allow search engines to more easily include threads in their index.

Also, for symplicity, why include the forum_id in the urlvar. This is already stored the the bboard table for each message.

-Bob