Post Slugs Format Updated!

2024-05-08 17:02 WIB - Hendrik Lie

Up to very recently, our post slugs are being constructed merely by converting the title into slugs. It is not foolproof, since sluggified texts are simply sanitized string with a number of nonstandard characters removed. It is therefore possible that some articles could have slightly different titles but the same slugs.

To prevent that, the solution is apparently quite simple: append the hash of the title to our slug. Of course we can’t display a full hash, so we only add the first few characters of the hash value. Therefore the slugs would be more or less unique for most cases, and if the title is not modified, it would always result in the same hash.

Authors are not expected to change the title every now and then though, so use it only to fix typos, and if the article is not yet referenced by other articles.