We’re now using these linkifiers on Zulip and it’s really nice. Thank you again for putting in the work to make these redirect pages @jules.
@mbauman what do you think? Can we switch the Discourse linkifiers to use these redirect pages from the General Registry? I think this solution is a much better fit than the JuliaHub pages because
- it’s significantly faster to load
- Authors intend for people to visit their repos, and they have control over those repos, unlike the JuliaHub pages (i.e. if a problem comes up with their presentation, they know and they can change it), so it feels like a disservice to send people somewhere that they have no control over.
- it gives more immediate access to things like issues / pull requests / giving stars
- Most authors don’t check the JuliaHub pages and don’t know if auto-generated pages screwed up their docs or their README (this has happened to me before and was quite aggravating, especially because after I discovered it, there was no way to fix it other than switch from using Org to Markdown for my README.)
- The General Registry 404 fallback page is significantly more helpful for finding non-registered packages, or dealing with misspelt package names