Improve Rev News Navigation

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
web-dev

Research direction

Start by locating the Rev News edition template and the configuration that produces its current date-based URLs. Check how editions are ordered, then determine where the archive navigation is rendered. Done means editions use the proposed title-based URLs and each edition exposes working Previous and Next links.

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Description

Currently, Rev News URLs follow the format:
/rev_news/:year/:month/:day/:title/
For example:
https://git.github.io/rev_news/2025/02/28/edition-120/

I think simplifying them to /rev_news/:title/ would help people access editions directly without needing to go through the archive.

For example:
https://git.github.io/rev_news/edition-120/

Additionally, I think it would be helpful to add "Previous" and "Next" links at the bottom of each Rev News edition. This would allow readers to easily move between editions without manually searching for them.

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