Forum post URLs are missing the hash about spacedecentral-network HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi Yalda! I was testing the platform with the purpose of fixing some of the issues, this one specifically does not seem an issue for me, since when you create a post with the same name it actually adds the hash at the end to keep duplicate title posts with separate URLs, ruby on rails is very smart in fact!!
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I think you can safely close this issue :)

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Probably in the example there existed an older version with the same title (building design outline), that is the reason why the hash was automatically added at the end.

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If you decide that is better to have hashes at the end of every post url, then we could change slug_candidates in models/post.rb to force this behavior

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@ottodevs nice catch :) thanks for looking into this!

Do you think every post should have the hash for consistency? I guess i'm not sure what is standard web behavior for this design pattern

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Well I don't really know what to say about that, I think is a matter of taste, I really like the simplicity of having pure text slugs with the fallback of the hash for duplicated titles, some forum platforms like thredded, seem to have the same behavior, but others like discourse or lithium have a consistent numeric slug apart from the text for every forum topic, so, I think there is not a standard on this 😅

If it helps, for this case I would recall the good ol' programmer rule: "If It Is Working Don't Change"

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