Hi John,

For EasyDiscuss, actually when this setting is disabled(http://take.ms/JImCX), the id will not be appended.

However, since you are using unicode characters on your site, you have to enable this option and append the id to prevent certain routing issues.

For EasySocial, there is no way to remove the id as well, except for user profile url where this plugin can help remove the url(https://stackideas.com/apps/item/3338-url-shortener).

The reason why these ids are appended in the url is to prevent url duplicate(eg. both user with same name) causing confusion to the system when user wants to access the url.

Joomla itself is still in the experimental phase of improving their routing system so it may take a while for the whole router system to be revamped.