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Trailing `/` in i18n Redirects to `/learn`

See original GitHub issue

Noticed in: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/pull/44809

To Reproduce

Go to: https://www.freecodecamp.org/portuguese/learn/
See 301 redirect to /learn

Go to https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/
Choose another language
Refresh the page
See 301 to /learn

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:13 (13 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

raisedadeadcommented, Feb 28, 2022

This is blocked by upcoming containerization

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sidemtcommented, Oct 25, 2022

Some additional information and thoughts.

Here is a bug report from a camper: https://twitter.com/WIPjVrUKr0cNazQ/status/1584593154451595265?s=20&t=I5py5Jbf-6JnaILWZZEkWg

They bookmarked the Japanese top page of /learn (that has the URL https://www.freecodecamp.org/japanese/learn/ by default) but every time they open it it redirects to the English page.

I’ve also seen many Japanese tweets that say the URL of the Japanese page they shared doesn’t work.

Details of the reported issue

Steps to reproduce:

Go to https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/
Change the language to Japanese (日本語) from the Menu
Bookmark that page
Open the bookmark

Actual result: User is redirected to the English page Expected result: User can open the Japanese page

As a workaround for the situation above, they can edit the bookmarked URL and remove the trailing /.

So I thought, if we could prevent the trailing / appearing in the URL in the address bar of the browser, we could reduce the chances that users encounter this issue. If it’s easier than fixing the redirect.

However, after some discussion with Shaun in the dev team chat, the traling / seems to be added by the browser. So it may not be an easy fix either.

The conversation we had

Clipboard - October 24, 2022 10_27 PM The link about trailing slash in the conversation above: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2010/04/to-slash-or-not-to-slash

I think this issue is heavily affecting the experience of international users. I’ll continue looking for if there is something we can do to improve the situation, but I’m not familiar with all the frameworks behind the issue so I appreciate your feedback and help.

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