Design choice behind /t, /c, and /users

What was the design choice behind going with abbreviated URIs for topics (/t), and categories (/c), but using the full form for accessing user pages (/users)?

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Because /users is a page on its own whereas /t and /c arenā€™t :wink:

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The average end user isnā€™t aware of that though, just seems inconsistent.

The average end user isnā€™t looking at the location bar.

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Shorter URLs, less desire to ā€œlocalizeā€ URLs since they are not full words.

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Probably also because users donā€™t create super long URLs while topics do. Iā€™m glad to have a convention that keeps these a bit shorter.

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We need /u/ for /users/ :slight_smile:

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Agree, but we should open a specific topic to track this

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This is now the case and implemented as /u/

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I can confidently say that none of my users are paying attention to that, lol.

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