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Created: 1776205544 Priority: A Status: to-do Description: Reconfigure the URL to make canonical paths a dominant, present aspect at all times and reconsider the treatment of the hash for canonical links. The motivation behind this feature is two fold. 1. It supports bookmarked, stateful URLs after their version has been removed from the server. This is critical because, currently, versioned URLs which have been removed from the server tell the server nothing about the page the user was on so such bookmarks simply go to a 404 page. Furthermore, it is not possible to quickly have the user bookmark the canonical version of the URL even though it is easy to link to and index (SEO) these URLs. This change will give the server something besides a 404 page to return (such as a "That version is no longer available... but here is the page you requested") so that bookmarked tools (such as the timestamp tool) are robustly available. 2. It makes it immediately obvious to the user what page they are on by looking at a URL or what page a bookmarked or shared URL will travel to. Having the state stored as a query parameter is more familiar to most users and is more in line with the intent and use of URL's pathname and query for this kind of stateful URL. Affected Parts: None Linked Issues: None