Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 12 years ago, 3 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#463,794
telegraph.co.uk has some funny ways of linking articles.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 11 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#463,836
@previous (A) > 2014 > not understanding the URI structure for SEO purposes
Metæ replied with this 12 years ago, 21 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^][v]#463,841
@previous (C)
How does it improve SEO vs just making the story title the URL?
r04r joined in and replied with this 12 years ago, 57 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#463,857
@previous (Metæ)
Text lookups are slow compared to numeric lookups. The number is used by the software to find the actual story, the text is used by humans (and search engines) to make sense of it.
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Metæ replied with this 12 years ago, 8 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#463,858