Incorrect Slack URL?

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Incorrect Slack URL?

MattDodsonEnglish opened this issue a year ago · 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.

Sam · Answer 1 · Wed Aug 23 2023 19:05:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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. :-)

Matt Dodson · Answer 2 · Wed Aug 23 2023 19:58:30 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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.

Sam · Answer 3 · Wed Aug 23 2023 20:56:11 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Sounds extremely believable.

Eric Holscher · Answer 4 · Thu Aug 24 2023 03:45:46 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

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.