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- most pages are redirects: not sure what the problem is. With respect to this point, I think the author is saying that it's a dated system that introduces a t
by entropicdrifter 6y ago
- most pages are redirects: not sure what the problem is.
With respect to this point, I think the author is saying that it's a dated system that introduces a ton of potentially unnecessary link rot. Basically, there's a ton of unnecessary technical debt because there isn't a more automatic way to set up/maintain redirects and instead often multiple manual entries are added for e.g. common misspellings of article names.
- bawolff 6y agoI guess, but i think it would be a hard problem to determine when a misspelling is close enough we should auto redirect without telling the user, and when its unclear enough that auto redirecting is too much and we should only have a little "did you mean x" prompt like we currently do.