Project Page

[morisy]

Create a project page model that allows a publicly viewable page with a title and which is editable on the backend and front end.

Url structure should be https://www.muckrock.com/project/project-name-123/ where 123 is the unique id #.

[allanlasser]

Why include the ID in the URL?

Project names should be unique (why would two projects be called the same thing?) and the unique slug can just be extrapolated from that.

(Not to mention that muckrock.com/project/my-great-project/ is just a better URL than muckrock.com/project/my-great-project-948/)

[morisy]

I agree that the latter URL is, all other things being equal, a nicer URL, but a few reasons:

• If projects are private, and are used to organize your own stuff, I can guarantee there will be duplicate projects over time. (Two people naming projects "FBI story", or something. Or just "Test").
• If we do something like prevent two projects from having the same name and throwing an error, or naming the second project with a URL'd /secret-project-2/, you're allowing a small amount of data leakage. Probably not the end of the world, but no data leakage is better than some data leakage.
• Having request MR #s in the URL and being consistent across email addresses, addresses, and backend/front end has made lots of things easier over the years. I don't know if we'll have the same needs with projects, but I'm guessing it will be somewhat moderately helpful at some point.
• I think the clunkiness of having a random number in the URL is a legitimate concern. I'm not wedded to it, but I think the benefits outway the clunky cost, and down the line can could offer vanity URLs for some projects/pro users/who knows that are just muckrock.com/my-great-project/ with canonical URL at the longer namespace.
• Kickstarter avoids this problem by having projects pages be kickstarter.com/projects/morisy/my-great-project Even if we eventually enforce a single owner for projects, that pretty much precludes transfering of project pages which is :-1:

[allanlasser]

All good reasons. Thanks.