By Josh Lewis on Thursday, 24 April 2014
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Joomla 3.5 may have a really sweet method for dealing with urls: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/advance-the-joomla-url-router#home

I really love how EasyDiscuss handles the urls, not only are they clean but they deal with duplicate titles very well (duplicate titles are incremented once for the url). Is this done through a alias or permalink? Could this same method be implemented into Joomla? It's the alias field that I'm putting on the spot light rather than the url aspect.

Also I mentioned this to bring awareness of a potential benefit for the StackIdeas team and their extensions. I'm excited because this gives Joomla the possibility of having some of the cleanest url's on the face of the internet. If our cards are played right, urls could be better than most major social media sites.
Hello Josh,

Thanks for the heads up on this. We are using an alias table, just that before saving it, it would actually check for duplicate aliases
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Friday, 25 April 2014 00:45
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Alias table? Or alias column? Joomla articles store it in another column instead of another table as seen here:

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Friday, 25 April 2014 01:45
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Hi Josh,

Ah sorry for the confusion. We actually using the alias column
Sam
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Friday, 25 April 2014 12:45
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Thanks for the update on this Sam.
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Friday, 25 April 2014 15:44
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Hi Josh,

You are welcome
Sam
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Friday, 25 April 2014 16:53
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It's about time and such a pain with Joomla compared to Wordpress. Hopefully it will get fast tracked finally instead of another feature that will take years of discussion with no progress. Joomla really have to push ahead.
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Friday, 25 April 2014 23:17
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With the new team in OSM and also a huge leadership on Joomla PLT, I believe it's possible but seriously, this is a community effort and you guys should also go to the forums on Joomla and help them out by voicing out ideas / suggestions / volunteering help
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Saturday, 26 April 2014 00:50
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