Trailing slash in URLs - which style is preferred?

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10 pointsWalkman4 comments

I hate to be "that guy", but how is this news? Strikes me as just a random question from SO, asked in 2011 no less.

Personally, I thought it was an interesting discussion and was happy to see it on here.

Sure, but it's "Hacker News" not "Interesting Hacker Discussions" :-)

Here is my understanding about trailing frontslashes.