Changing a URL #
One of the things I highly value is stable URLs. When you link to my site, I want that URL to work as long as my site is up. I don't want to lose all those links lightly. But for ease of implementation, the URL structure matches the file structure on my site, and I occasionally want to change the file structure. So what should I do?
I make a 301 redirect from the old URL to the new URL.
There are links on forums, discord, stackoverflow, etc. that I can't expect anyone to change. But I can keep those links working on my end by adding a redirect. I have made 28 of these URL changes in 28 years, an average of once year, and each one has a redirect to keep the old URLs working.
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