luo-ning wrote: Tue Apr 05, 2022 6:25 pm Difficult for me to test rn as unfortunately, we're having some unrelated SEO issues at the moment — Google simply doesn't seem to be trawling the vast majority of the forum. But I'm pretty sure it'd continue to use the canonical URL in search results, as that's what canonical URLs are for.
What I think Google expects is that the dominant link structure used in the HTML should match the canonical. phpBB already has issues with redundant links and you are piling more on.

While I would love to see friendly URL's added to the core the warning I give about any modifications like this that significantly change URL's structures is that there is always a risk it will go unsupported in the future or conflict with future core changes.
The idea is to make things easy for users. Copy and paste from the address bar, read it in the address bar, read it on mouseover. With that said I would suggest there is much better approach to this at least for the anchor text for internal URL's in posts.P_I wrote: Sun Apr 10, 2022 8:54 pm If human's want friendly and readable URLs then they should just post them. It is easily done.
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1053375
That of course does not work with current version of phpBB.