Incorrect Slack URL?
MattDodsonEnglish opened this issue · comments
A URL for http://slack.writethedocs.org
appears in various texts on the site. You can find occurrences by going to the directory root and running this command:
grep -ir "slack\.writethedocs\.org" .
As far as I can tell, this link is broken and should be updated to https://writethedocs.slack.com
. I'm happy to make the fix myself, but I just wanted to make the issue first in case I'm missing something.
Hi Matt,
Thanks for noticing! I'm pretty sure that is human error. @ericholscher did you change this in living memory?
Regardless, a fix would be most welcome. :-)
I found the old URL in commits as early as 2016. But it also appears in commits as late as 2022. Also, by rough calculation (piping grep to wc -l
), the incorrect URL appears three times more often than the current URL.
For these reasons, I thought I might be missing something. My guess is that that URL used to be valid and it continues to propagate through renaming, template copying, and occasional muscle memory.
Regardless, a fix would be most welcome. :-)
Cool, I'll make the changes soon.
Sounds extremely believable.
slack.writethedocs.org used to be a web app that let you register for Slack, and then a redirect to https://www.writethedocs.org/slack/, which is likely where most of those links should point.