Links on index & 404 page

[Leo-Mu]

Why not link to everyone's file in the humans directory?

Well. Now on the index page, we can only see the link to human.txt and some links to everyone's GitHub profile. If I want to see a page someone created in humans directory, it will be hard to find it. Why not write a piece of JavaScript to display links to pages in the humans directory rather than GitHub profiles.

Do you need a 404 page?

I found there is no a particular 404 page. If the URL is wrong, it will display the boring GitHub 404 page.

[SubhrajyotiSen]

@muan This sounds like a good idea

[zwirektech]

I agree about the files in humans directory. It has been discussed a little in my first PR.
Since the picture is a link to the user's profile, there could be a filename under the picture as a link to the file in humans folder.
However, the filename doesn't have to be the same as a username in human.txt
Actually it's not the same in many cases.
I think just a list of humans folder content with links to individual files would be ok.

The 404 could be another issue...

[aaossa]

@muan any opinions on this? 🤔

[muan]

Why not link to everyone's file in the humans directory?

We could. The only problem is we didn't restrict what kind of file people can put in the repo. It could be .md or .html or .txt etc. I didn't want having to write HTML to be a blocker. But perhaps that's not that big of an issue?

Or we could do something clever with JS fetch to test what type of file by a name exist and then redirect people to that URL.

Do you need a 404 page?

404 would be good. I can go hand in hand with that ^ redirection idea.

[leewp14]

Hi there!
I made a very very very simple list of humans, testing indicates that txt, md and html is ok to open directly, except for those without a file extension.
Here I attached the html file, don't know whether it can be used 😄

test.html.zip