# Automatic package links

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatic-package-links/106275>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2023, 5:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatic-package-links/106275 "2023-11-15T17:44:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mason/32/2423_2.png) [@Mason](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mason)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2024, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/automatic-package-links/106275/17 "2024-12-20T14:13:56Z")

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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

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