some old links don't get redirected

Started by LociOiling

LociOiling Lv 1

Thanks to jeff101 and alcor29 for pointing out this area of investigation.

For the most part, links to the old Foldit site are redirected to the new site.

This is true for puzzles, recipes, users, groups, and forum postds.

The front page is different. Several of the top-level links have missed out on redirects.

For example, there's https://fold.it/portal/info/about

That URL gives an "Old/Invalid resource route" error.

It should probably redirect to https://fold.it/science

The "about" page is now more general: https://fold.it/about_foldit

The "categories" link from the old site also gives the same "old/invalid" error: https://fold.it/portal/categories

That one should probably redirect to https://fold.it/leaderboards

The missed redirects include:

  1. https://fold.it/portal/info/about
  2. https://fold.it/portal/categories
  3. https://fold.it/portal/blog
  4. https://fold.it/portal/feedback
  5. https://fold.it/portal/groups
  6. https://fold.it/portal/forum/5 (the old "Forum" link)
  7. https://fold.it/portal/players
  8. https://fold.it/portal/info/faq
  9. https://fold.it/portal/recipes
  10. https://fold.it/portal/contest
  11. https://fold.it/portal/info/credits
  12. https://fold.it/portal/messages/list/inbox ("My Messages")

Additionally, the "My Page" link gives a "404" error page: https://fold.it/portal/user/me

The "My Group" link actually works correctly, and so does "Are you new to Foldit?". (These links used the node number format versus a special URL.)

The "Are you a student?" link gives a 404 error: https://fold.it/student (A special URL.)

And "Are you an educator?" also returns a 404: https://fold.it/educator (A special URL.)

(The new/student/educator links also have lots of downvotes on the old site. It's not clear is that reflects genuine lack of satisfaction, or it's just vandalism.)

LociOiling Lv 1

Just to clarify, the problem is that any forum posts or wiki pages which use references like https://fold.it/portal/feedback are broken at the moment.

Within the context of the old site, old.fold.it, all links of course continue to function. The problem is forum posts and external content like wiki pages, which still refer to fold.it and not old.fold.it.

LociOiling Lv 1

Most of these links are working now, thanks to jflat06.

The https://fold.it/portal/contest link is still not being redirected, since there's no equivalent on the new system yet.

The "My Page" link – https://fold.it/portal/user/me – also isn't working.

The "student" link – https://fold.it/student – isn't working, but the underlying post https://fold.it/portal/node/2010045 now redirects to https://fold.it/forum/discussion/for-students

The "educator" link – https://fold.it/educator – also isn't working, but the post https://fold.it/portal/node/2010044 redirects to https://fold.it/forum/discussion/for-educators