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Upcoming namespace changes

In the coming week, we’ll be making a few changes to how files are accessed. The changes are mostly cosmetic, and will be transparent to people using vanilla 4chan. We’ll also continue to support legacy URLs for a short time to give third-party developers the opportunity to migrate their apps, but suggest making the appropriate updates as soon as possible to be prepared for when the changes go live.

  1. Semantic thread URLs with slugs. “res/” will be renamed to “thread/”, and subject/comment snippets will be appended after the thread ID as a slug. For example, “http(s)://boards.4chan.org/g/res/41321419” would become “http(s)://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/41321419/daily-programming-thread”. This will be included in the JSON as the “semantic_url” attribute in the OP container.
  2. Less redundant file URLs. The “src/” and “thumb/” directories will be removed from images/thumbs.4chan.org and i/t.4cdn.org. Files will live at the board root on those subdomains.
  3. Pages renumbered. The board index will now start from “Page 1” instead of “Page 0”.

The 4chan API documentation will be updated shortly before the changes go live.

Update: To clarify, links that omit the slug and contain just the thread ID will continue to work as before, and slugs will only be in the URL bar and not post (>>123) links. This change shouldn’t affect you unless you constantly copy and paste URLs, or stare at your URL bar all day.

—moot

Notes
  1. silveretta reblogged this from 4chan
  2. midknighting reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    What’s the point of making the URL’s be keyword friendly? Likely for internal tracking and keyword extraction to align...
  3. toognuforyou reblogged this from soundtoxin and added:
    Sorry? When did normal become a bad thing? Does the mere fact that something is “normal” scare you away from it because...
  4. username44444 reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    gheeeeeyyyy
  5. lethumblraccount reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    FUCK YOU, THE NEW URLS ARE MORE COMPLICATED AND STARTING FROM 1 IS RETARDED
  6. kukanto-abandoned reblogged this from 4chan and added:
    prepare for break, m00t is coming to your thread
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