This discussion centers around the functionality of the /my route for linking to user-specific resources, specifically group mailboxes. thoka initially discovered that /my/group/messages/My-Group doesn’t redirect to the expected /u/{current_username}/group/messages/My-Group. Users Moin and mcwumbly agree that the /my route should ideally work as a replacement for /u/{username} in any user-namespaced URL. A use case is presented by Moin regarding easier access to group inboxes removed from the sidebar, and by thoka wanting to direct people to group mailbox settings. awesomerobot suggests trying /my/messages/group/my-group, which doesn’t work for thoka. A related issue regarding case sensitivity in group names is brought up by Moin, linking to this topic which was split off as a separate bug report. awesomerobot clarifies the initial path suggestion from thoka had the order of group and messages reversed. Finally, thoka acknowledges a fix was implemented in the related case sensitivity topic.
I just had to learn that /my/group/messages/My-Group does not work as expected.
Naively I was sure, that it would redirect to /u/thoka/group/messages/My-Group, which it does not.
Couldn’t the redirection /my to /u/{current_username} just work for any URL inside the user namespace?
Move this feature request to Contribute > Bug, if my assumption is the desired behavior.
I would also have expected this to work.
Depending on what you want to use the link for, /g/my-group/messages could be a workaround, as long as the feature is not implemented.
I think it makes sense to do this.
But out of curiosity, what were you trying to accomplish when you learned this didn’t work?
For me, a use case would be easier access to group inboxes after they have been removed from the sidebar
Kind of like sam suggested
But in a public custom section, so /u/username won’t help
This related topic /my/messages/group/GROUP_NAME link doesn't work makes me think it worked before
I wanted to direct people to their group mailbox to check their announcement settings.
I think you may have the path wrong? try my/messages/group/my-group
Does not work at our site.
I would expect that I can take any actual link from the browser and replace /u/thoka with /my to make it work for anyone.
Current link shown to me is:
So I expect /my/messages/group/Elternkreis to work for anyone.
Try /my/messages/group/elternkreis
I think you have the same problem as me (Germans like capital letters 
). But my report was moved to its own topic because the team decided it’s different from yours
Hm. In a pure logical way this fits to this topics headline.
Ah yes, I was confused at first because I think you have group and messages swapped around in the original post
messages should come first — if the group name is the only issue we can focus on that more specific topic
Sorry für that confusion.
Thanks for the fast fix.