928161 - Tutorials don't work with the project URL - only vanity URL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Webmaker Graveyard :: Popcorn Maker, defect)

Description

[Jacob [:Jacob]]

If you copy the project URL into a tutorial-URL tag in Popcorn Maker it won't load right.

See - https://jake.makes.org/popcorn/1hlh/remix

Instead of using this Thimble URL in my tutorial tag - https://jake.makes.org/thimble/make-your-own-gifs

I used this one from my address bar of the same project - https://thimble.webmaker.org/en-US/project/21186

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It's possible a lot of people my hit this because that's the URL that gets redirected in their address bar. They might not know to copy the vanity URL given by the publisher and instead copy the project URL straight from the address bar.

Any way to auto-correct this?

Comment 1

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

The url needs something in it that can link to a make. Right now a project id only links to the project db which is managed by the apps. So popcorn might not be able to turn thimble projects into makes.

Comment 2

[Scott [:thecount] Downe]

Going to wontfix this.

Just too hard to be worth it.