Page Extension removal / change
Core Platform: Yes
Community Edition: No
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In either case thank you for the time taken in assuaging myself and others that this is beneficial – never any argument about this, just about who to – and explaining in the detail that you have.

Hi Bruce

Thanks for the clarification and the good advice.
I shall wait and see what comes with the knowledge that over the years the good of DNN has by far outweighed the what might seem to be the bad (from my perspective).

A happy Humbug to you

Ian

Hi Tony

The answer to your questions are a bit of 'all of the above'.

DotNetNuke has supported Url Rewriting since version 3, I believe.   The functionality was all contributed as open source.  As to why more features hvae never been built into the core - probably the availability of both free and commercial extensions meant that other priorites went forward instead.  However, I can't answer that definitively, and I'm just speculating.  I do know that there is a much longer list of desired features than there are available man-hours to get it all done.

In terms of volunteer open source, I spent many hours putting together and maintaining an open source alternative to the DotNetNuke Url Rewriting.  There are also open source alternatives for some of the other Url functionaltiy needed, like redirects.