Make "/my" work for all possible links to current user

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 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:

grafik

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 :wink: ). 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.