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[savetheclocktower]

Have you checked for existing feature requests?

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Summary

For blog posts in particular, there might be a lot of existing links floating out there.

Our existing URL scheme looks like this:

https://pulsar-edit.dev/blog/20240902-savetheclocktower-modern-tree-sitter-part-7.html

But it seems we're about to make it look like this:

https://blog.pulsar-edit.dev/20240902-savetheclocktower-modern-tree-sitter-part-7/

Or at least:

https://pulsar-edit.dev/blog/20240902-savetheclocktower-modern-tree-sitter-part-7/

I know this is a static site generator, but it would be great if we had a way to issue redirects from the old URL scheme. Just putting this out there in case it's possible.

What benefits does this feature provide?

We won't break URLs that currently work — because cool URIs don’t change.

Any alternatives?

We could change the planned permalink format to match what we already have. (I don't love this as an idea, but if it came down to this or nothing, I'd take it.)

Other examples:

No response

[savetheclocktower]

This blog post might be useful to consult later.

[confused-Techie]

I totally agree, I've been eyeing this snippet to handle our redirects, but we'd apply them in the pulsar-edit/pulsar-edit.github.io repo since that'd be the only site available on the classic pulsar-edit.dev domain. But yeah totally agree with you there and have a plan for making this happen