# Updating email preferences via API

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-email-preferences-via-api/65983>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 11, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-email-preferences-via-api/65983 "2017-07-11T05:10:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updating-email-preferences-via-api/65983/4 "2017-07-14T23:27:52Z")

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At some point we renamed the `/users` endpoint to `/u` so that we can have pretty short urls in the browser like we do for topics and categories. If you do

```
$ rake routes | grep username

```

you will see most of the routes and I think currently most of the `/users` ones have duplicate `/u` routes. The line is generating the `/u` routes:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/config/routes.rb#L311>

but I believe there are still some `/users` routes that don’t have a matching `/u` route.

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