New-ish addon: Redirect to standard forums (from mobile forums 404) - #6915

Just as a note: It should probably be worth seeing if it was only a temporary removal, though it might be unlikely

Just as a note: It should probably be worth seeing if it was only a temporary removal, though it might be unlikely

Yeah, there is a small chance that they might come back soon, but my guess is they are gone. Wait a few weeks, perhaps?

If they have decided on removing it entirely, it only makes this addon more useful by redirecting any old mobile links either on Scratch itself or more commonly Google search, see #6917

I know, I set up this PR to be ready then. But the addon could also be modified to redirect to the forums instead of showing a 404 page when people click on a mobile forum link.

If they have decided on removing it entirely, it only makes this addon more useful by redirecting any old mobile links either on Scratch itself or more commonly Google search, see #6917

Maybe we should rename the old addon and make it enabled by default since there's no reason not to enable it.

Just as a note: It should probably be worth seeing if it was only a temporary removal, though it might be unlikely

I think Paddle2See stated somewhere that they were removed for security, so doesn’t seem temporary. Though I think the addon should be kept since there’s still search results and maybe past posts that have the mobile forums.

Could redirect-mobile-forums be re-added? Also the forum match can be simplified.

Update: Based on user feedback, I've added back the addon, and augmented its functionality so that it automatically redirects from 404 pages that were invoked from mobile forum links.
It has the potential to become a "Smart 404" addon... (flashbacks from SA Nightly)

Should we change the addon's ID to smart-404? That way, it would be enabled by default for new and existing users.

Should we change the addon's ID to smart-404? That way, it would be enabled by default for new and existing users.

I wouldn't name it smart-404 unless we actually plan to implement a smart 404 feature. You can consider just adding -v2 at the end of the addon name.

But if somebody wants to build a smart 404 mechanism for other pages, they can it on this addon.

But if somebody wants to build a smart 404 mechanism for other pages, they can it on this addon.

If an addon's scope is expanded, it generally keeps the ID that refers to the old function. Anticipating a Smart 404s addon and changing the ID to that would not follow this custom, so the ID shouldn't be changed unless it is determined (before this or other similar PRs are merged) that the addon's scope should be expanded. That's not too say it won't happen, but as of now just -v2 should be added to the ID.

Sorry I forgot to move the milestone. Strings are closed right now, so we can't add new addons (technically it's not new, but the addon ID is new, so all translations are lost)

Is this ready to merge then?

I think we forgot to update the regexes on addons/necropost-highlighter/addon.json that still consider the mobile forums

Could redirect-mobile-forums be re-added? Also the forum match can be simplified.

That too

However, the actual goal of this PR is not to remove all references to the mobile forums.