I’ve merged this topic into this other topic. The merge worked nicely. I expected that when I open the old link, it would redirect me to the new location, but that doesn’t happen. When I open it anonymous, I shows “Page not found”. When I open it with my account, it shows me the old closed/deleted post. This is the link that doesn’t redirect: https://collective.flashbots.net/t/devcon-bogota-pbs-developer-roundtable-summary/633 This is surprising, I think it is a bug. Am I missing something, here?

[image] Leo Arias: This is surprising, I think it is a bug. Am I missing something, here? It is non-intuitive, but there is a reason! :slight_smile: We use a soft-delete system in Discourse, so admins are able to go back and see deleted topics, including the ability to restore them. The result: admins can see a deleted topic, everyone else sees a “page not found”. There is a way to setup a redirect, manually, by visiting /admin/customize/permalinks and adding a redirect from the topic path to a topic ID: [Screenshot 2022-11-24 at 15-14-49 Admin - fnord] [Screenshot 2022-11-24 at 15-12-03 Admin - fnord] Having a setting that automatically create redirects when merging topics sounds like a nice #feature request. :slight_smile:

Thanks! This makes sense, but I still cannot make it work. I’ve set up a redirect from t/devcon-bogota-pbs-developer-roundtable-summary/633 to topic id 438. The behavior is the same, when I go to https://collective.flashbots.net/t/devcon-bogota-pbs-developer-roundtable-summary/633 as admin I get to the moved topic, and when I do it anonymous I get page not found. [redirect]

:thinking: Nothing comes to mind on why the permalink would operate that way… let’s see. Did you move the topic t/devcon-bogota-pbs-developer-roundtable-summary/633 into a category that is not public?

It seems permalinks don’t work for internal links? [image] Permalinks within Discourse Support I would like to redirect topic 3405 to topic 5618. So anyone linking to 3405 gets sent to topic 5618, instead. I read up on Permalinks here: https://meta.discourse.org/t/59727 https://meta.discourse.org/t/88918 I tried setting it up a few ways: [image] But none of these seem to make topic 3405 redirect to topic 5618.

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It seems permalinks don’t work for internal links?

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