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Just now, David.. said:

So it's best to just roll with IPS has done?

Considering most of us have updated from IPB3, Google must have been redirected plenty of times.

Personally I am leaving as it is and I don't think it's an issue. Wordpress also appends a slash and I know tons of wordpress pages which rank really well. I am also sure they would have changed it if this is an issue.

It's probably the same like the www vs. non-www decision. 

Just now, David.. said:

I've also seen most sites don't have that trailing slash. Even IPB3 itself. If you visit the non-slash URL, it will 301 redirect you to the trailing slash URL.

Not sure here.

Well that is actually correct. It's important to be consistent at this point. I haven't removed the trailing slash because I am worried that the sitemap will report links with a trailing slash and Dr Google may be angry because we have reported a link which contains a redirect. 

8 minutes ago, David.. said:

Are there any SEO benefits to this? Would be great to get a reply from you! Always love your work!

As far as I know it hasn't. It's common practice to remove that slash actually. Google does that as well, personally I'd remove it and personally I also think this should be the default in IPS.