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Message Posted: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 @ 09:02:38 GMT

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I'm sure these comments back "from the horses mouth" will explain some of mysteries of the dev ex organisation:

Most important point is the last point in Neil's reply

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Threads are ordered by most recent activity. This model presents more relevant content than thread creation date. For example, today is Apr 19th. Imagine there was a topic posted on Apr 10th. Nobody responds to it for several days, then there's a response, then a flood of responses today: this topic should be presented near the top of the list, ahead of a topic from yesterday that hasn't had any activity since.

URLs are auto-generated based on the topic, with punctuation etc stripped out. If there's ever a clash with a pre-existing URL, an incremental number is appended to the URL (e.g. /database/sql-error, /database/sql-error-1, etc).

More importantly, we fully support the practice of using Semantic URLs ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_URL ).

Earlier forum software had URLs such as /teradataForum/FindTopic.aspx?id=34251 as opposed to /database/sql-error now. There are multiple reasons why we prefer semantic URLs. These are pretty obvious, but briefly:

- Semantic URLs are information-bearing. In our case you can see the category ('database') and subject ('sql error') from the URL. This also makes a significant difference in web search, as the URL is one of the most important factors in search engine ranking of pages.

- Semantic URLs are implementation-independent (the topic id 34251 will not be the same if you migrate to new software, as we recently did).

- Semantic URLs don't contain junk (such as ".aspx?id=") that is of no relevance to the user.

If you'd like to continue this conversation, a good place for discussion of DevX features and usability is the General forum:

forums.teradata.com/forum/general

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