If you're a new programmer, where does everything fit? We should have a nice guide to this! One thing we need is a tutorial of sorts for programmers.

This guide should describe just very generally:

• the routing
• the views
• the templates
• the forms
• the database/models

... and point to other pages for more specific information :)

(A good strategy might be to do a "walkthrough" of one of the existing, clearly developed and simple views, from start to finish, which uses all these pieces?)

Links are getting long quick wnen our ID's are mongodb ObjectID's. e.g. http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment

Comparison:

base 16: 4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd
base 58: 1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO
and just for perspective...
base 10: 24265763280740767849856893149
want more perspective?
base 2: 10011 10011 01000 00101 01100 11111 10100 11001 10001 10101 00101 01011 11001 00110 10000 00000 00000 00110 11101

It does not really make a huge difference in size. But it's still some.

Regular link: [http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment](http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment)
base58      : [http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO/c/1RlbRFH6rhl3jdX36/#comment](http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO/c/1RlbRFH6rhl3jdX36/#comment)

If anyone has any other suggestions on how to keep the ID's in the URLs as short as possible, this description of what a mongodb ObjectID consists of might be helpful.

Cheers

It should be changed so that comment URLs are

/u/{username}/m/{slug}/c/{comment_id}/#comment instead of
/u/{username}/m/{media_id}/c/{comment_id}/#comment