Just a couple months ago, I pushed out a major update to classiccars.com (it's still pretty messy) that cleaned up/reduced the url structure.. the old system had like 50 routing rules to support a wide variety of "friendly" urls for searches, and listing display... I reduced that to /listings/find/YEAR(s)/MAKE/MODEL?opts where all search params other than year/make/model were not part of the route, but querystring params... it didn't make sense to support all those routes (not to mention the old results paged via postback). (hint, you can set the page size up to 100 via a ps=100 querystring param, there's a few others not in the UI yet)... the UI is very similar to how it already was.
The new routes make more sense, and are imho more friendly. The same for listings/view/###/STUB though I put the number/id before the stub, it looks a lot better than it did. Also, I put permanent redirects for any old references to the canonical url. It took a bit of work, now some more updates are going in to make the title/description/h1's more friendly. It's more maintainable now, and some very old URLs are still supported.
Currently working on some other modernization bits, which means a lot of the cruft can finally get cleaned out (if a section at a time, slowly).. having a friendly/consistent url stucture is important imho.
The new routes make more sense, and are imho more friendly. The same for listings/view/###/STUB though I put the number/id before the stub, it looks a lot better than it did. Also, I put permanent redirects for any old references to the canonical url. It took a bit of work, now some more updates are going in to make the title/description/h1's more friendly. It's more maintainable now, and some very old URLs are still supported.
Currently working on some other modernization bits, which means a lot of the cruft can finally get cleaned out (if a section at a time, slowly).. having a friendly/consistent url stucture is important imho.