"What's news in Discourse" link is not-found

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A discussion in the Bug category addresses an issue with the “What’s news in Discourse” button on the admin page, which links to a non-existent page. yhmtsai and Canapin report the broken link, which previously pointed to meta.discourse.org/c/feature/announcements. JammyDodger confirms the issue and explains that the category was moved to announcements, requiring a URL update. Canapin questions the reasoning behind the link structure, and pfaffman notes that the URL may have been designed to use slugs without IDs. JammyDodger concludes that the issue should be resolved in the latest version.

Hi,
There’s a button What’s news in Discourse in admin page.
It’s linked to https://meta.discourse.org/c/feature/announcements?tags=release-notes&before=0 , but it shows not-found

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I confirm the issue on my forum. version 2.9.0.beta12 (6493ddce17)

Thanks for reporting this. :+1: #announcements was moved to be a standalone category a little while back, so that link will need updating.

If you’re still looking, you can find them now at:

https://meta.discourse.org/c/announcements?tags=release-notes&before=0

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Any category link by default uses the ID in the URL to keep the link valid if the category changes and the ID is absent from this URL. Is there a particular reason for this or is it an oversight?

I’m afraid this I do not know. :slightly_smiling_face:

I manually amended the given link above to get the new revised one, but I suppose the actual link would be

https://meta.discourse.org/tags/c/announcements/67/release-notes?before=0

Or perhaps

https://meta.discourse.org/c/announcements/67?tags=release-notes&before=0

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If you leave out the id, it’ll match by slug, which, I think, the way that category urls worked when the code was written.

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If you update to Latest, I think this should be fixed now. :+1:

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