Forum Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs => Friendlier URLs?
 

Hey, was looking at the Mod Rewrite Friendly URLs => .htaccess that some doofus decided to close, despite it being stickied now, and I'm curious about a couple of things:

I've been looking at VBSEO and though the feature comparison to vBulletin 4 looks pretty impressive at first glance, the worry about compatibility with mods and the hugely larger server load people speak of don't sound good at all: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread66504.html

My question is, in vBulletin 4 in the Friendly URLs options, is there any way (or does the vBulletin team plan to implement in the future any way) to customise the friendly URLs a bit more?

The current "best" one is the mod rewrite one like I mentioned in the first paragraph, but all that gives you is "threads/1234-Thread-Title" - it would be great if we could customise the "threads" bit to be the name of the subforum it's in, for greater search engine visibility, or an option to remove the "threads/" bit from the URL entirely and just have "yourforum.com/1234-threadtitle".

I'm aware that I could edit the htaccess to redirect outside links going in, but the forum itself would still be linking to the incorrect URLs which would make it rather pointless.


Another thing that could be good is making the links that users' can get when they click for permalinks on individual posts very short ones, e.g. those ones to send to others or twitter would just be yourdomain.com/1234 (thread ID number) as well as maybe optional bit.ly conversion for longer domain names