I am wondering whether it makes sense (or is even possible) to simplify the Friendly Urls system so that static urls are only used on the story, published, queued, and category pages and the rest of the site uses dynamic urls.
The benefits would be a much simpler and shorter .htaccess file and reduced maintenance of the .htaccess file for both site owners and developers as Pligg continues to evolve. This seems especiially important given how early in development Pligg is.
I can't really see any major downsides to having supporting pages like login and submit continue to use dynamic urls. It is the main content of the site - the stories and the pages that aggregate them - that really need to be optimized for search engines and benefit from having user friendly urls.
MediaWiki sort of works like this. The main content of a MediaWiki site uses static urls but all of the supporting pages like log in and submit and register use dynamic urls. As a result setting up Friendly urls on a mediawiki site only requires 2 mode rewrite commands.
Linear Mode
