Timeline for Should Stack Exchanges sites with top-level domains have *.stackexchange.com redirects?
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| May 18, 2011 at 13:08 | comment | added | Kip | @JeffAtwood: Stop attacking a straw man. I'm just suggesting redirects for the urls that users are likely to enter if they assume that all stack exchange sites follow the same pattern as the sites they're familiar with. | |
| May 18, 2011 at 4:08 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @kip sure, let's add redirects for every string combination from 1 to 12 characters, just in case! | |
| May 13, 2011 at 15:24 | comment | added | Kip | but it's not like it costs anything to add a redirect, right? redirects are intended to be redundant. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 19:56 | comment | added | Corey | "Redundant" assumes the condition that both domains are known by everyone. It's redundant up until the point when someone visits the alias and not the original. So though your answer of "adding an alias now would be somewhat redundant" may very well be correct, the reasoning of "these sites weren't created with these names when they were launched" doesn't seem to adequately explain it. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 7:08 | history | answered | Geoff Dalgas | CC BY-SA 2.5 |