Many of us are asking for names as slugs being a priority but it is more complicated than it seems.
Right now hive communities are just a number. No ability or concern of name squatting.
Once you use named slugs, you need a name resolution service and people can squat names.
I know, that's why I think a hybrid model. IDs stay, so you can have N communities with the same name, however, we can also have a slug setting per community in a FIFO order.
It's a tradeoff and I prefer having a human-readable slug in URLs.
Why not what Facebook does?
How do you determine who gets the slug?
First? Then we going to get a bunch of squatting. Add in the fact you can always change the name of your community, what happens to the slugs then and all the previous links built.
All these problems is why they only support numbers now. Not sure if it will actually get solved or we stuck with this.
Good to know, thanks.
I disagree.
But Facebook Groups does customized URLs and it is first come first served. Same thing with website domain names in general.