solving this problem will result in a new URL-scheme for comments: every comment will be reachable through [story-ID]/comments/[comment-ID]/action. Now this brought me to the idea that the permalink of every story should be [weblog]/stories/[story-ID] - which could be easy done (btw.: it would make some parts of the code cleaner, and it would solve this problem, too). this means that neither the topic-name nor the day when the story was created is part of its URL. now: what ya think? 's ok?

"one url is enough for all of us" (the police).

does this break all old links?

especially if it doesn't break old URLs (it won't, right?)

What about topics? I would love it if we could allow all characters in topic names. I think this should be possible if we passed them as query strings, i.e. /topics?name=xxxxx. Not as nice, but if it allows us to lift the restrictions...