sharing profile links and language
In the past when I shared a link to shared entry it looked like ;
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/IDID-01D
Now they contain a language code;
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/IDID-0!D
I work with people in different countries so this is annoying at best.
Shouldn't URLs redirect to a selected language associated with ones user account settings?
(I just noticed that isn't even a question or option!)
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Links to records contain a language code, but that can be stripped off.
1900 census for my uncle is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3JR-VMD?lang=en
but https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3JR-VMDworks just as well.
Links to a person profile have no language code for me:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/LHVZ-CS80 -
Look above the profile you shared has EN in it. In the past there was no language code in those. I am not sure how it dynamically selected a language to display things in in the past. Perhaps from a flag sent from ones browser.
I am just saying this seems like a step backwards.
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You can certainly strip the language segment from any URL path. So the URL provided above:
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/LHVZ-CS8
can be changed to
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LHVZ-CS8
and then it will redirect to the corresponding page for my language; e.g., if I am German, it will redirect to
https://www.familysearch.org/de/tree/person/LHVZ-CS8
But if you are interacting frequently with people who use FamilySearch in a different language, it certainly would get tedious to have to strip the language code from every URL that you share.
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That is what I have been doing, stripping it out and yes its tedious. In the past this wasn't necessary.
It would seem to me that if I click the German link you shared it should auto redirect to the English one for me. Else maybe they should go back to where the links were agnostic.
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