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Suggestion: show a "this tilde doesn't exist yet" page instead of a 404
(Apologies if this has already come up)
If I click on a link to a non-existent tilde e.g. https://tildes.net/~photography it shows a plain 404 "not found" page. Instead there should be a more informative page which says something like "this tilde doesn't exist yet".
This could eventually be used for a mechanism for users to vote for/suggest a new tilde.
Looks like @deimos has already created this issue on GitLab
Good idea. It would improve the experience on Tildes as you'll always be inside of it instead of ending up outside of it. It can probably wait as it's not critically needed now.
It is not a tilde, it is a group. This is an important distinction since it could clash with the fact that the ~ represents the community and with the name for tildes users once that is decided.
I think calling a group a "tilde" as sort of an informal nickname is fine. I didn't formally want to name them that, but I think it's inevitable—the group names have a tilde in front of them (~music, ~games, etc.), and it kind of follows from the site's name as well. The site is basically a collection of groups and it's named "Tildes", so it makes sense that the groups are the tildes.
Logically that makes sense. I just figured that we'd go by what's in the docs.