I can hardly believe my eyes. Another thing made worse compared to the old forums? Potentially irreversible now? Are there no more numerical referrers to threads? The unique ID is now a slightly reformatted segment of the thread title? Look at this: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/community/SC/forum/5/thread/hard-time-sometimes-choosing-between-general-and-a The part before the thread is already very long, but that's a frickin' long URL! I know these from other websites, but there they have a numerical referrer and the verbal part is optional, more like a first-glance into the topic. I guess for curiosity I could test making another thread with almost identical title to see what the URL looks like then, but I don't want to cause forum confusion at this point. Just wanted to get the point across. This seems like a weird style. Any manual handling of thread URLs, especially when length is an issue, becomes less than ideal.