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

[fishb6nes (Yannick)]

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)?

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

Because /users is a page on its own whereas /t and /c aren’t

[fishb6nes (Yannick)]

The average end user isn’t aware of that though, just seems inconsistent.

[mpalmer (Matt Palmer)]

The average end user isn’t looking at the location bar.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Shorter URLs, less desire to “localize” URLs since they are not full words.

[tobiaseigen]

Probably also because users don’t create super long URLs while topics do. I’m glad to have a convention that keeps these a bit shorter.

[sashailinsky (Ильинский)]

We need /u/ for /users/

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

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

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

This is now the case and implemented as /u/

[justin.noom (Justin Thurer)]

@mpalmer

The average end user isn’t looking at the location bar.

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