Dead MELPA link

[mcandre]

The new MELPA homepage has moved to https://melpa.org/#/

[derekpappas]

The use-package link is https://melpa.org/#/use-package

[nopdotcom]

I think this can be closed; it doesn’t appear to apply to the current codebase.

@mcandre: The homepage is obviously https://melpa.org/, with no #/. Nobody ever types the empty search fragment, except maybe the people who wrote the too-clever JavaScript.

@derekpappas: It’s a shame that MELPA ignores REST, both in URL structure and in implementation.

$ curl -s 'https://melpa.org/#/use-package' | egrep '<(h1|title)>'
  <title>MELPA</title>
      <h1><span class="archive-name">MELPA</span> (Milkypostman’s Emacs Lisp Package Archive)</h1>

If details were linked under https://melpa.org/package/use-package or /p/use-package or /~use-package, something useful could be done with that URL.

Incidentally, MELPA scores an own goal here. On the “Getting Started” page, the second paragraph links to an actual fragment, but of course MELPA’s JavaScript navigation has been hijacked, and goes somewhere random instead of the intended destination.

[skangas]

It seems like the links have been updated, so I'm closing this now. Please reopen or report a new issue if you spot any other dead links.