Changing post name/URL not updating on the Mastodon side

[wakest]

easiest just to show this as a screenshot.

I am following my blog scream.today/daily from my mastodon instance social.wake.st/@liaizon

I have mistitled a blog post so I changed the title and the slug. I load my profile in mastodon and it has the old title and url. so if I click the link it 404's because I changed it. if I search the updated url from mastodon it does not show the new data.

Version or last commit:
scream.today running
writefreely v0.11.2

social.wake.st running
mastodon 3.0.1

[thebaer]

Thanks for the report!

I'm not sure if fediverse platforms support updating post URIs (most completely ignore the Update activity), so the right fix could mean sending out ugly ID-based URLs for posts in the fediverse instead of their slug-based URLs.

Another solution (probably a good middle-ground) would be to send out ID + slug (Medium style) URLs to the fediverse, and only parse the ID on the WF end to retrieve the post. That would keep semi-pretty URLs, at least.

Otherwise, the least-ideal solution would be to just track slug changes and redirect people on the WF side. This isn't ideal, because as soon as a new post uses an old (redirecting) slug, that redirect gets removed.

We'll need to see how much work this'll involve and then we can get it in.

[filippodb]

I have the same problem on a story with a changed title/url
writefreely can do like medium: it keeps live the old url with a canonical url to the updated address, just to avoid duplicated pages.