[thesite] new category proposal: web business

[Ron Dorman]

Michele Foster wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ".jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
>
> | michele,
> |
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> | > From: Michele Foster
> | >
> | > Jeff, can you remind me (everyone) yet again, if people
> | > have already bookmarked articles, will they get an
> | > article not found if we move an article's category?
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> |
> | yes, they will.  i've talked of removing this restriction in the past and
> | might end up doing just that.  it makes me feel dirty to do that though
> | because it gives the user a false sense of categorization of the article
> if
> | they visit with the old link which tells them it's in the "foo" category
> | when it's actually in the "bar" category.  they click the "foo" category
> | link when they're done reading to find more articles like it and are
> | confused when they can't find any like it.  then, they go to the "bar"
> | category and see the article listed there.  it makes it look as though we
> | had the category defined improperly on the copy they were reading.  they
> | can't expect that the category isn't really tied to the actual category
> the
> | article is in, but instead is tied to the category_id in the url.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.  This is what I thought, but I wanted to
> double check.  What are our options then?  (not just asking you)  Most of
> the articles that Issac and Martin mentioned wanting to move to the new
> category are "older", not too active articles.  However, Martin's CMS
> article has been quite active.
>
> Is there a server-side redirect solution that we can do?  Would we even want
> to do that?
>

how much work would it take to replace the existing category article with an
article saying it has been re-catorgorized with the nwe link?