So, on our discourse server we use topic slugs like 123-region-2 this has been no issue until recently. Now it seems thats the discourse server, if it gets a request for example 5454-region-3 and that topic slug does not exist. It gets the topic with topic id 5454 and this creates a lot of problems. …

[image] pontus.dualdecade: Is there a way to make sure if we get http://discourse.server.com/t/123-mytopicslug-2.json and that topic does not exist we get a 404? Why would you even have this form to begin with? Where is the numeric ID of the topic? The URL is malformed the way you’ve written …

Starting a title with a number is a bad idea as you describe. The problem is that the slug is ignored by Discourse and that if you start a slug with a number and that number matches a topic_id you’ll get that topic. These both resolve to this topic https://meta.discourse.org/t/112491 https://met…

We do this lazily, so the client predicts the topic slug. We have no way of predicting the internal discourse topic id. So we have to get the topic solely based on the slug. If we change the slug to be region-1-123 instead and that works I guess thats a solution. To clarify, the numbers 1 and 123 …

Nice, we only have 37k topic slugs to rename. :smiley::gun:

Renaming 37K topics could be done with a script. If you have a budget for such, post on Marketplace or contact me directly. Re-training your users to guess new URLs, which would seem much harder. But how did you train them to guess URLs in the first place? Are they coming from some other site that …

[image] pfaffman: Why are you removing the topic_id? You kinda buried the lede here. This is the entire question: why do it this broken and non-standard way?

Indeed. I got lost on this one a couple different ways.

Topicslug with numbers gets translated into topic id?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 25, 2019, 1:39pm 5

Right. Then you’ll need to make sure that your titles won’t start with numbers.

I think you can get that from the API. Search “reverse engineer api”

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Topicslug with numbers gets translated into topic id?

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