Confusing episode listings redirection URLs...

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Confusing episode listings redirection URLs...

Post by Robo4900 » Tue Mar 29, 2022 7:23 pm

So, I was looking up information on some Super episodes the other day to check if Naoki Tatsuta continued to voice Kaio and the Narrator for all episodes of Super from 12 onwards.

The fastest way to navigate several episodes at a time is to just change the URL in the address bar, and I was quite surprised to see Joji Yanami listed as the voice of the narrator in Super episode 131... Did he come back briefly? No, he hasn't been the voice of Kaio or the narrator since episode 11... so what's going on?

Well, Kanzenshuu doesn't have episode pages for all of Super, so if you try to go to https://kanzenshuu.com/episode/super/eps-131/, the site tries to be helpful and redirect you to something close to what you entered, but not exactly what you entered. In this case, it assumes you didn't mean Super, you meant DBZ, so it directs you to https://kanzenshuu.com/episode/dbz/eps-131/.

A simple "No such page exists" type thing may be a little more helpful in this case.
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Re: Confusing episode listings redirection URLs...

Post by Hujio » Thu Apr 07, 2022 11:51 pm

That is part of the core functions in WordPress, not anything we actually set up ourselves. WordPress assumes you clicked on a link that contained a mistyped URL and tries to find the page it thinks you were actually supposed to be linked to. It doesn't really account for people manually typing in URL addresses. If there is no page remotely close to having that same name, then you get a 404 error. However, this is something we can change, and likely will in the future.

Also, there are easier ways to navigate between episodes. You can use the episode list, the navigation arrows at the bottom of each episode page, or (and this isn't really well advertised) use the arrow keys on your keyboard when on any page with navigation arrows at the bottom.
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