Hi. I use slug only urls, like: https://talks.dos.zone/t/007-james-bond-the-stealth-affair-1990-fr/ But if I open it directly in browser it redirects to welcome topic. When I click same url into another topic it works normally. Example (click on French link): https://talks.dos.zone/t/007-james-bond-the-stealth-affair-browser-and-mobile-versions/44659 Is it intended behavior?

This is working as intended. Discourse support the 3 types: Full: https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-slug-only-as-url-without-id/174258 Only ID: https://meta.discourse.org/t/174258 Only Slug: https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-slug-only-as-url-without-id But if the slug starts with a number we special case and look for the first number as an ID: app/controllers/topics_controller.rb main # TODO: We'd like to migrate the wordpress feed to another url. This keeps up backwards # compatibility with existing installs. return wordpress if params[:best].present? # work around people somehow sending in arrays, # arrays are not supported

Ahh ok. So it will affect little amount of urls. Thank you!

Using slug only as url without id

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) December 25, 2020, 9:14pm 5

That’s more work than using the url in your browser (that has the ID) and will break if you rename the topic. (plus when the title starts with a number)

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Using slug only as url without id

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