{"action":"closed","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alistapart/AListApart/issues/157","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alistapart/AListApart/issues/157/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alistapart/AListApart/issues/157/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alistapart/AListApart/issues/157/events","html_url":"https://github.com/alistapart/AListApart/issues/157","id":64816982,"number":157,"title":"SEO: generate author URLs with hyphens between first and last names","user":{"login":"murtaugh","id":308752,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/308752?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh","html_url":"https://github.com/murtaugh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/murtaugh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/alistapart/AListApart/labels/effort:%20small","name":"effort: small","color":"bfe5bf"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":6,"created_at":"2015-03-27T17:51:14Z","updated_at":"2015-04-30T18:02:03Z","closed_at":"2015-04-30T18:02:03Z","body":"I'm not sure `/author/fname-lname` is possible with the way things are currently set up; however, @michellekondou and I have been working on the idea of migrating author data into a new channel, so we can use \"entry\" data instead of \"user\" data for authors, which is more flexible. Once that's in place we can certainly create this new URL scheme.\r\n\r\n*But*: Is first & last name sufficiently unique? Even if we make `author/fname-lname` happen (and redirect all the existing ones), what happens when we bring on a second author named John Smith?\r\n\r\nWe may have to sacrifice some URL purity here, and go for something like `/author/[ID NUMBER]/fname-lname`. @sarawb, does that seem like a reasonable compromise? We lose the clean appearance of the URL, and the \"hack-ability\" for what that's worth, but seems like SEO should be a higher priority."}}