thoka
(Thomas Kalka)
July 12, 2025, 9:57am
1
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.
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Moin
July 12, 2025, 10:04am
2
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.
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mcwumbly
(Dave McClure)
July 12, 2025, 12:30pm
3
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?
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Moin
July 12, 2025, 12:49pm
4
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
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thoka
(Thomas Kalka)
July 12, 2025, 2:10pm
6
I wanted to direct people to their group mailbox to check their announcement settings.
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I think you may have the path wrong? try my/messages/group/my-group
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mcwumbly
(Dave McClure)
Split this topic
July 12, 2025, 4:18pm
8
thoka
(Thomas Kalka)
July 12, 2025, 8:53pm
9
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.
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Moin
July 12, 2025, 9:01pm
10
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
Continuing the discussion from Make "/my" work for all possible links to current user :
I was really confused why this didn’t work for me, as this was what I tried first when I read that topic.
After some testing I think I found the cause: As soon as there is a capital letter within the group name this fails.
My steps are always the same:
I visit my inbox
I use the dropdown to go to the inbox of the group
I replace /u/Moin with /my
I check if this works
Verifying this works without a capit…
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thoka
(Thomas Kalka)
July 12, 2025, 9:03pm
11
Hm. In a pure logical way this fits to this topics headline.
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