Faulty links redirect to random pages

[tacitonic]

​https://wordpress.org/support/article/ could serve a 404 or 301 redirect to HelpHub, but redirects to another page altogether.

[SergeyBiryukov]

@fierevere also noted that ​https://wordpress.org/support/forum/ redirects to a topic too.

[joyously]

The simple solution is to create a page with that slug, and put the expected content on it.

[Otto42]

Most URLs under /support will redirect to a random topic, most likely based on a simple search.

​https://wordpress.org/support/kdbkfb/thing for example.

If the desired goal is to eliminate this general search-based redirection, then that should probably be addressed directly instead of putting in pages for specific URLs. You could spend the rest of your life building those pages.

[joyously]

I suggested the specific page for that particular URL, a few years ago: ​https://github.com/WordPress/HelpHub/issues/231

But there is a recent commit in core which might apply here: ​https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16557

[Otto42]

So, do we want to turn off the guesser and show a 404 for non-existent pages?

Or just have a few selected URLs to redirect to somewhere like the support homepage?