Old External Links Entering Redirect Loop
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@abarker said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, shit … there goes the Discopædia index.
On a related note: @ben_lubar, the redirect stuff seems to not be working quite right. When trying to follow the links from the @Discopaedia twitter account, I get the following:
sample link: https://t.co/H8s2RwV7a1
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@abarker hmm...
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@abarker fuck
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@abarker ok, fixed
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@sloosecannon that's not the URL the twitter link redirects to.
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@ben_lubar said:
@sloosecannon that's not the URL the twitter link redirects to.
I see. Yep, it works.
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@ben_lubar said:
@sloosecannon
that's not the URL the twitter link redirects to.DOING_IT_WRONG, WONTFIXFTFY
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Here's another one:
It should point to:
But it gets pointed to the last post in the topic. Wasn't there supposed to be a topic ID mapping to help handle the old URLs?
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@abarker said:
topic ID mapping
It's going to the right topic. Are you telling me Discourse post numbers (including deleted posts) weren't contiguous?
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@ben_lubar said:
Are you telling me Discourse post numbers (including deleted posts) weren't contiguous?
Definitely not! Especially after Jeffing!
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@ben_lubar said:
Are you telling me Discourse post numbers (including deleted posts) weren't contiguous?
They were, except:
@Tsaukpaetra said:
after Jeffing!
And the Discopædia experienced some heavy Jeffing to its meta thread.