Re: Excessive # usage in URLs

* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> The point of the # is that you actually want to point to that specific
> message in the thread. If you just pick the first message in the thread we
> could exclude it, but how else would you link to a specific message?

The request isn't to remove the "#" ability for the flat view entirely,
it'd just be nice if the site didn't redirect to having the "#" when the
message-id after the "#" is the same as the one before the "#" (iow,
it's the first message).

Eg: you go here:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151023125233.GQ3685@tamriel.snowman.net

The link to "whole thread" is:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20151023125233.GQ3685@tamriel.snowman.net

But you go there and it immediately redirects to:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20151023125233.GQ3685@tamriel.snowman.net#20151023125233.GQ3685@tamriel.snowman.net

Which is just, well, redundant, and makes the URL longer than it needs
to be.