# Allow /u/ to work like /users/
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 24, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245 "2017-01-24T02:27:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 2:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/1 "2017-01-24T02:27:57Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Design choice behind /t, /c, and /users](https://meta.discourse.org/t/design-choice-behind-t-c-and-users/55434/8):
@Sam requested a specific topic…here it is.
There have been requests for `/u/` to work in a URL similar to how `/c/` and `/t/` work.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2017, 3:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/2 "2017-01-24T03:14:43Z")
This is probably a good idea @eviltrout. We will need to support both forms for backwards compatibility for a while.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2017, 8:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/3 "2017-03-28T20:35:17Z")
I have a large-ish PR for this now. Looking for more eyeballs from the team before I merge it in:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4781](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4781)
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/4 "2017-03-30T14:50:08Z")
Okay, I’ve merged in support, so as of now the latest Discourse will have `/u/` in the path instead of `/users`. Please let me know if you find any issues!
For backwards compatibility, the old paths will work for a very long time. However, definitely point out places that we missed, because long term we want to remove all the old paths.
edit: This doesn’t seem live here on meta yet because we’re reviewing the auto\_reopen code
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2017, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/5 "2017-03-31T14:55:17Z")
Update, this is now present here on meta. Please report any bugs as you find them! I consider any path with `/users` to be a bug, even if it’s working!
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/6 "2017-04-27T01:12:29Z")
@eviltrout, it looks like admin is still using `/users` - is that intentional?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2017, 2:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/7 "2017-04-27T14:43:06Z")
Yeah, that was a whole second set of routes that were not publicly visible so I omitted them.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-u-to-work-like-users/56245/8 "2017-06-29T00:22:56Z")