Many broken links since site re-design

[joepie91]

Just two random examples that I've run into:

• https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bot/matterbridge.html
• https://matrix.org/blog/2018/06/15/this-week-in-matrix-2018-06-15/ (see also This Week In Matrix 2018-06-15 missing (3318.mdx) #450)

Was any work done to redirect existing URLs to their new locations and were these just missed, or was it not considered at all? Because it's quite frustrating to have a lot of the URLs break for no apparent reason (and URLs are supposed to be permanent).

[ara4n]

The expectation was never to break URLs; it's a cockup that they broke, and we're fixing it.

[joepie91]

Great, thanks :) Good to hear that it was just a mistake.

[ara4n]

Another one is:
https://matrix.org/docs/projects/as/matrix-appservice-imessage.html
which is now:
https://matrix.org/docs/projects/as/imessage-bridge
..apparently.

[ara4n]

@benparsons i've gone and done a rewrite rule to turn foo.html to foo if foo.html doesn't exist on disk, but we still need to check and fix all the pages which have unexpectedly got renamed like the imessage one. Or even better, we should give them the right name (this should be matrix-puppet-imessage for instance), by having pages which do a meta-tag redirect you to the correct url.

[aaronraimist]

@ara4n https://matrix.org/docs/guides/privacy_notice.html needs a redirect to https://matrix.org/legal/privacy-notice (and presumably all the other legal stuff)

[benparsons]

@aaronraimist I'm making a list of these (everything on https://matrix.org/legal/ will be the same.)

The plan is to use gatsby to create the redirects

[joepie91]

I'm not sure if access logs are kept, but if they are, maybe it's worth filtering out every unique URL from it that once resulted in a 200 response, and checking each to see if it's still accessible? That'd be a fairly automated way to catch the remaining broken links.

[lampholder]

I'd like to add that https://matrix.org/docs/guides/copyright_notice is broken and should redirect to https://matrix.org/legal/copyright-notice

[DMRobertson]

It looks like all of the above links broken today. Unclear if this is because of the most recent redesign.

matrix-org/synapse#16568 and matrix-org/synapse#16569 spotted another one: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/clients-matrix -> https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/