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Conflict with "forums" Menu Item Alias in ED4

Inspire Theme LTD · ·
11:58 PM Friday, 29 July 2016
High
Hey guys,

It seems that in ED4.x, "forums" is a reserved word for the routing.
But this brings a major issue to the table. Here's my particular setup and the problem...

We have a Menu Item that is of type "Frontpage Layout" (I tested with the new "Forums Layout" but the problem is the same). This menu item has "forums" alias, therefore the generated URL on the frontend is:

http://www.websitename.com/forums

The above works perfectly fine in ED3.x, but in ED4.x, since you added the "Forums" capability, you also reserved the "forums" word for your routing.
I cannot keep the above setup, because none of the links in ED4.x work - they are just not properly routed.

Yeah, the workaround is to change our Menu Item Alias to something else, to remove the "s" and make it just "forum". But this brings a whole new problem, a major problem... actually, it brings 2 major problems:

1. Google has already indexed our URLs. It is not that simple to just change them. And I really do not want to play with redirects, be it with an extension or directly in the ".htaccess" file.

2. We have few hundred discussions already. In many of these discussions we have pasted links to other (existing) discussions so the user can read them. If I change the Menu Item Alias, all these links will get broken. We'll have to review each and every discussion and change the URLs manually (which is quite unacceptable).

So, is there a way to release the "forums" word in the next update of ED4.x?
If not, what solution would you offer for our scenario, so we do not need to change the current Menu Item Alias?

Thank you in advance and I hope you understand the seriousness of this issue.
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