Styles: rename /tag to /tags OR redirect /tags to /tag

[ninetydegrees]

Title:
Styles: rename /tag to /tags

Area:
styles

Summary:
When you want to go to the tags page of a journal, the URL uses the word 'tag' (e.g. http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/tag). I suggest it be renamed to 'tags'.

Description:
I can't count the number of times I've typed 'tags' only to get a 'We can't find that page' message.

Alternative suggestion: implement a redirect so that 'tags' works too and leave 'tag' as the default.

Poll #1836 Styles: rename /tag to /tags

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 55

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Should be implemented as-is.
33 (60.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
20 (36.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
1 (1.8%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.8%)

Comments

[cimorene]

I'd prefer the redirect. People may have saved bookmarks or posted links to the current page, or have learned the current one so that a change would be confusing.

[susanreads]

+1

[cheyinka]

Yes, or could be deleting the end of a specific tag display to get back to the list of tags.

[triadruid]

I do this all the time, but I would definitely like to have the redirect from 'tags' as well.

[musyc]

+1 Would like this with a redirect.

[the_shoshanna]

+1

[eruthros]

+1 -- I type "tag" in automatically.

[inarticulate]

+1

[kyrielle]

+1, or if it's changed to tags, have a redirect from tag to tags. Either way, just that both should work. "tags" is intuitively what you need if you haven't dealt with it before, but "tag" has been what it did for so long that there are habits and patterns as well.

[turlough]

+1

[sorchasilver]

+1

[velocitygrass]

+1

[cesy]

+1

[hatman]

+1

[white_aster]

redirect, yes. I've made this error many times, going to "tags". :P

[lassarina]

Would love a redirect. I make this error at least 50% of the time when trying to get to my tags page.

[aedifica]

Strongly in favor of a redirect! (I don't favor an all-out change because there have got to be some people who have learned it's "tag" and this would turn the problem onto them instead, but a redirect would be most excellent.)

[msilverstar]

YES! It seems so right to type "tags" in the path to the Tags page!

[gchick]

Yes with redirect. And thanks for suggesting -- I make that mistake all the time!

[zvi]

A redirect would be the best thing ever in the history of tags.

[miang]

Second alternative suggestion: do both! Rename the actual page to 'tags', because it makes more sense for people new to the system, but then have the 'tag' page redirect to 'tags' so people who've bookmarked or learned the old system don't lose out.

[ninetydegrees]

I believed DW would automatically implement a redirect if the renaming happened and this is why I didn't mention it.

[ex_pseudonym472]

I voted "with changes" and agree with all the agreement about making sure the redirect works.