CUNY Academic Commons

One problem here is that we should not be pinging cuny.is for shortlink availability if the admin hasn't changed the value. I've implemented this in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/48bd569306c5bf033d6f772749f8529fe260ef77.

For this specific group, there's a further problem. It appears that the cuny.is/cunydhi-group shortlink points to commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/digital-humanities-initiative, while the URL of the group in question is commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/cunydhi. As such, our YOURLS client thinks that the requested URL is already taken by another group. But the digital-humanities-initiative URL redirects to cunydhi. How did this happen? Matt, do you recall changing this at some point, or requesting that I do it? If this is a one-off, it may not be worth fixing. If there's a systematic way one can change group URLs, then perhaps it'll be possible to add some logic to the YOURLS integration that will handle these changes.

Aha, thanks for the digging, Ray!

It sounds likely that Matt had changed the group slug at some point in the past, then. I'm still not totally sure why there's a redirect between the old group URL and the new one. Nice feature, but I don't remember building it :)

Anyway, I think it's probably not worth digging into more, because it's no longer possible for users to change slugs.