Hacer que "/my" funcione para todos los enlaces posibles al usuario actual

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

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.

[Moin]

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.

[mcwumbly (Dave McClure)]

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?

[Moin]

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

@sam

A workaround is a custom sidebar section that links to the group boxes you care about.

But in a public custom section, so /u/username won’t help

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This related topic /my/messages/group/GROUP_NAME link doesn't work makes me think it worked before

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

I wanted to direct people to their group mailbox to check their announcement settings.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

I think you may have the path wrong? try my/messages/group/my-group

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

@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:

So I expect /my/messages/group/Elternkreis to work for anyone.

[Moin]

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

Group name should be case insensitive in /my route

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…

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

Hm. In a pure logical way this fits to this topics headline.

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Ah yes, I was confused at first because I think you have group and messages swapped around in the original post

@thoka

/my/group/messages/

messages should come first — if the group name is the only issue we can focus on that more specific topic

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

Sorry für that confusion.

[thoka (Thomas Kalka)]

Thanks for the fast fix.