Post URL should not have trailing slash

[kirkas]

I understand the use of trailing slash for category / tag as they somewhat represent a parent, but a post is a child url and shouldn't require slash (or at least being given the option not to have a slash).

www.blog.com/category/ is a directory / parent
www.blog.com/category/my-first-post is a file / child

It create issue with social crawler #4828
And someone already did a PR: #1028

Argument: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5948659/when-should-i-use-a-trailing-slash-in-my-url

[halfdan]

Hi @kirkas,
as mentioned in #4828, this is an issue with the crawler - not with Ghost.

I don't think the traditional file vs. directory comparison makes sense in today's web anymore and especially in Ghost where a blog post does not map to an actual file. There's e.g. also www.blog.com/category/my-first-post/edit which is an action on the post (and something that doesn't suddenly turn the "file" into a "directory").

All in all I think it is a matter of opinion and Ghost decided to go with trailing slashes.

[acburdine]

@kirkas we use the Ghost issue tracker for issues with Ghost itself, and this is technically more of a feature request....for those we use https://ideas.ghost.org. If you like, please submit this feature request there.

Like @ErisDS said in the older issue - doing this would not likely benefit a lot of users. That being said, if you put it on the wishlist I linked above, and enough people vote on it with a desire to change it, then we can re-think this.

Personally, I agree with @halfdan's comment.

[kirkas]

Yes it is a matter of opinion, and there's fair arguments on both side. the point is the config option is fairly easy to add, so why not having it and let people choose?

[acburdine]

@kirkas see the above response. Also, the technical requirements of adding a config option like that are not trivial at the moment, which is why it needs to be a feature request on the wishlist first 😄

[kirkas]

Fair!

[benwoodward]

This also breaks anchor links:

<a href="#example">Example headline</a> => domain.com/page-url/#example (should be: domain.com/page-url#example)

[kevinansfield]

@benwoodward that is not a "broken" anchor link, it's the correct anchor link for a page with a trailing slash.