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by stanleydrew 5857 days ago
URLs have never been for users. Users don't care how your application works. They just want it to work. URLs are for developers. We have links to abstract away URLs for users. But that doesn't mean developers shouldn't think in terms of URLs. Users also don't care about database tables and data normalization, but that doesn't mean developers shouldn't.
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bphogan 5857 days ago
A subset of users care about URLs when a hierarchy exists. I've seen it happen during usability testing. /projects/25/tasks shows the tasks list... and I've watched the user delete the end of the url to get to /projects.

Most users don't care, but there are advantages to a clean hierarchical URL scheme, and it's one reason I like how Rails does routing currently.

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