refactor: removes aliases from announcements

[andrea-kyurchiev]

A workaround for #521 until we find a permanent fix. Seems that this only happens if aliases are used for announcements

[rrrutledge]

Will this break existing links?

[andrea-kyurchiev]

Not within the website, no. Only if any of the announcements are linked anywhere external (ex. LinkedIn)

[rrrutledge]

Current behavior when visiting a page with an alias is for the page to be displayed in English (albeit with a “zh” in the URL path). Is that correct?

[andrea-kyurchiev]

@rrrutledge yes, its the "zh" in front that changes the language

[rrrutledge]

Thanks for looking at this, @andrea-kyurchiev.

I have to ask my question again, though, because I don’t think it’s been answered, yet.

Today, when a person visits a page alias, will they see the page rendered in English or Chinese?

[andrea-kyurchiev]

@rrrutledge the page itself will be in English as none of the announcements have a Chinese translation but the website's locale will be changed to Chinese

[rrrutledge]

OK - got it. One more question, now. After merging this PR, if a person visits a page alias, what will they see? 404 page?

[andrea-kyurchiev]

@rrrutledge yes, I believe so

[rrrutledge]

In that case let’s not do this change. Landing at a page with English text (albeit with Chinese locale) is a better experience than landing on a 404 page.