Interesting way to squeeze permalinks

Argh... looks like I am rediscovering the wheel. In the past I used services like https://tinyurl.com but it looks that I don't need it for my permalinks. 

At least on a Community Server powered blog, I can simple write:
    https://blogs.msdn.com/423926.aspx
instead of:
    https://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2005/06/01/423926.aspx

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 01, 2005
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• Anonymous
  June 01, 2005
  Interesting that you decided to censor.
  
  PS see what I mean about comment counts?
• Anonymous
  June 01, 2005
  Well - you know, there is alwayws the conflict between my Dark Side (that sees trolls everywhere) and my other ego :-)
  
  Seriously now - blogs.msdn.com will be moved soon on better hardware so these perf problems will go away.
  
  On Longhorn - I disagree - after all we spent a lot of time with the most pressing stuff for our customers: XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1... but that's my personal opinion.
• Anonymous
  June 01, 2005
  Seriously now - blogs.msdn.com will be moved soon on better hardware so these perf problems will go away.
  
  Why do we keep hearing this from MSFT? We'll sort it all out, real soon now. Why not just go ahead and do it? You can always get Akamai to pseudohost it on their Linux boxes like the rest of microsoft.com ;-)
  
  But the plugins thing is important. If I want MathML support for my Wordpress-powered blog server I can get a plugin. Not for CS.
  
  CS competes against free products with less features, not really a winning proposition. How many users (not Microsofties, MVPs or other similar) have actually chosen a CS solution?
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2005
  >> But the plugins thing is important. If I want MathML support for my Wordpress-powered blog server I can get a plugin. Not for CS.
  
  >>> CS competes against free products with less features, not really a winning proposition. How many users (not Microsofties, MVPs or other similar) have actually chosen a CS solution?
  
  I don't know detail about CS but I can only presume that this was the easiest upgrade path from the former .Text implementation that was heavily used until few months ago. Also note that there are thousands of bloggers on blogs.msdn.com and blogs.technet.com - so other issues like dedicated support and capacity load take priority. And yes, on the capacity load - AFAIK, it's just a hardware issue that has nothing to do with Community Server implementation. So - until then, bear with us please :-)
  
  BTW - I also think that we are still in the stone age of blogging hosting products (after all CS is pretty new). I think that five years the situation will be vastly different. I for one, I would like too nested comments, HTML content, previewable comments, and so on and so forth. But, at least, I have now a Preview option when I submit a post! (something that even .Text didn't have).
• Anonymous
  April 03, 2008
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