[jennifer2010]

I’ve been trying to get Invision Power Board developers to change from their archaic URL structure to adopt bbpress’s.

For example,
IPB looks like this:
site.com/ID-forum-name/
then topics look like
site.com/topic/ID-topic-name/

While bbpress looks like this:
site.com/forum/topic-name/

Their argument is that having a URL structure like BBpress’s is “inefficient” because they index is larger for querying titles to find the topic. They INSIST that the ID has to be in the URL otherwise it would create performance issues.

I disagreed.

Any developers who can shed light on this?