Wp-calypso: Site Settings: Add redirects for legacy SEO and Analytics routes?

[tyxla]

In https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/pull/11788 we introduced the Traffic tab, which removed the SEO and Analytics tab from Settings. The new tab can be found at /settings/traffic, while the old ones (/settings/seo and settings/analytics will no longer work).

There was a discussion in https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/pull/11788 about whether we should add redirects to support the old routes.

It's worth to mention that the support documents that contained the legacy links have already been updated - see p2rHU0-Av-p2 for more information.

My opinion is that we don't need these redirects, and I think @dmsnell and @MichaelArestad align with that, while @oskosk might have a different opinion on this.

Let's continue that discussion here, cc @rickybanister @ashleighaxios too

[oskosk]

Nope. I have the same opinion as everyone else :P. Thanks for your work on this

[tyxla]

Thanks for confirming @oskosk. Does anyone disagree that we don't need redirects to support the old routes?

[beaulebens]

Unless it's really difficult for some reason, I don't know why we _wouldn't_ have redirects.

[kriskarkoski]

I agree with Beau, unless there is a technical reason not to do it I think we need these anytime we change a URL structure as we often link directly to these settings for users that they may reference indefinitely and now suddenly no longer work.

[dougaitken]

In addition to Kris' comment, currently the settings/seo page draws a blank, no reason what has happened for the user.

I don't think this is intuitive, the user has to think to click on "My Sites" then go back to Settings, then realise that Traffic is now the combined page.

[tyxla]

Thanks for the opinions y'all, I've addressed this in #12309 - feel free to test and review it.

[tyxla]

Also, I've open a PR to update those in Jetpack - https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/6692.