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 featu…

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 [image] Messages section moved to single sidebar link A workaround is a custom sidebar section that links to the group boxes you care about. But in a public cus…

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

[image] awesomerobot: 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 fo…

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 [image] Group name should be case insensitive in /my route Bug …

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 [image] thoka: /my/group/messages/ messages should come first — if the group name is the only issue we can focus on that more specific topic

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

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thoka (Thomas Kalka) July 15, 2025, 7:26am 14

Thanks for the fast fix.

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

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