[bnc319]

I forget where I ran across it, but one interesting adoption of URL design is to make the root of the directory part of the site's domain name. I.e. there was someone's website that was shared on HN, where their name was assembled with the domain name, TLD, and some characters after the first slash:

  firstna.me/lastname/
  firstna.me/lastname/about

[tomooot]

One example that springs to mind is the documentation site for WLED, an incredibly powerful microcontroller firmware for controlling addressable LEDs:

https://kno.wled.ge/

[toyg]

This arguably started with del.icio.us.

[oneeyedpigeon]

And I'm so glad they eventually registered delicious.com (or whatever it was) because remembering exactly where those "."s went was a real pain.

[p1nkpineapple]

For another example, the recently featured https://fastht.ml/