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Need language-agnostic version of the node.js download page #8853
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Activity
It cannot be https://nodejs.org/download/ though as that is a long standing index page.
Reacted by Matt Cowley, Aviv Keller and Brian MuenzenmeyerWe were discussing this recently in the context of linking from nodejs.org/learn to download, as learn does not have localization. Given that we can't use nodejs.org/download, we couldn't agree on a good solution to this and instead ended up implementing localization for the navbar within nodejs.org/learn, so it could link to the right page directly.
We did discuss potentially using /get instead, and moving /:locale/download to /:locale/get, but that is quite a substantial move -- I was not a fan of this due to how substantial it is and wanting to avoid any risks we don't need to take with our most important page, hence we landed on the localized navbar instead.
Reacted by Aviv Keller and Augustin Mauroywhy not just having
nodejs.org/get-nodethat redirect tonodejs.org/en/downloadless chore solve issues of having non localized pathReacted by Aviv KellerI feel like that makes it confusing, having two paths completely different in structure showing the same thing
Reacted by Augustin Mauroy
Affected URL(s)
https://nodejs.org/en/download
Description of the problem
The nice download page for Node.js requires a language code in the URL (https://nodejs.org/en/download/ instead of https://nodejs.org/download/). For the purposes of linking to this page from elsewhere on the internet, it would be great to have that neutral version of the URL that redirects to the page language based on the user's browser settings (like how https://developer.mozilla.org redirects to https://developer.mozilla.org/de for German readers.