On: Tell YC: "Hacker News" needs clean profile URLs

[alaskamiller]

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jonallanharper isn't clean enough?

[jonallanharper → alaskamiller]

http://news.ycombinator.com/user/jonallanharper is more valuable from a search engine perspective, I think.

[sanswork → jonallanharper]

Does this still hold true? I know in the past search engines ignored stuff after the ? but is this still the case? Google certainly doesn't anymore.

[alaskamiller → jonallanharper]

that's to assume pg wants search traffic

semantic urls are nifty but not that nifty

[jonallanharper → alaskamiller]

He wants people to take pride in their comments/submissions. Knowing your info is easily searchable by your handle influences you to create more valuable content.

[alaskamiller → jonallanharper]

for what it's worth, my HN profile pops up within the top 5 google search results

[jonallanharper → alaskamiller]

http://news.ycombinator.com/user/{username}.{rss|atom|json}

... would be elegant though, IMO.

[alaskamiller → jonallanharper]

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