I can’t be the only reddit migrant who often instinctually goes to a given community by typing /r/community, only to be 404d. If the /r/ path isn’t being used for anything else, is it possible to have it dynamically redirect to /c/ instead?

  • masterspaceOPEnglish
    22·
    6 days ago

    I know, and I get it, I’m not talking about changing the actual root page URLs of the Lemmy communities, I’m just talking about adding some additional redirects so that if you try to go to /lemmy.ca/r/something it would redirect you to the right URL of lemmy.ca/c/something.

    From the user’s perspective, they’re making a typo, and the Lemmy server would be catching it and assuming by /r they meant /c, and sends them that way. Once you as a user land at a page you would be at the /c/ url.

    • Jerkface (any/all)English
      1·
      5 days ago

      Better not to linkify it at all, so that the author can easily see, learn from, and correct their mistake.

      • masterspaceOPEnglish
        11·
        5 days ago

        I’m not talking about publishing a link to click necessarily, I’m talking about when I’m on my laptop and literally just type in the wrong url out of habit.