Redirecting tag pages

October 23, 2006 5:16 PM

minor annoyance filter: can the url: http://www.metafilter.com/tag/x redirect to http://www.metafilter.com/tags/x? (likewise for AskMe)
I know it's minor, but "tags" seems nonstandard given how other sites work.
posted by matkline to Feature Requests at 5:16 PM (6 comments total)

make that"tag"seems nonstandard
posted by matkline at 5:30 PM on October 23, 2006

When I did it, delicious did it one way (I think tags) and flickr did it the other (tag?). There was no standard, so I picked one and tags it is.

Also, foo.com/tags/whatever degrades gracefully and intelligently to foo.com/tags/ showing all the popular tags off the same URL.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:41 PM on October 23, 2006

I've always prefered tag, and delicious came first, but hey.
posted by 31d1 at 7:11 PM on October 23, 2006

Why is this an issue, or an annoyance?
posted by signal at 7:17 AM on October 24, 2006

Because it "seems nonstandard given how other sites work"?
posted by Count Ziggurat at 4:16 PM on October 24, 2006

And that is annoying, how?
posted by signal at 8:20 PM on October 24, 2006