docs: add comment explaining _redirects is not used by coder.com

blink-so[bot] · blink-so[bot] · commit df6595385493 · 2025-12-06T22:09:15.000Z
The coder.com website runs on Vercel with Next.js and reads redirects
from redirects.json in the coder/coder.com repo, not this file.

This comment should help prevent confusion when adding redirects.
diff --git a/.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc b/.markdownlint-cli2.jsonc
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-	"ignores": ["PLAN.md"],
+	"ignores": ["PLAN.md", "docs/_redirects"],
 }
diff --git a/docs/_redirects b/docs/_redirects
@@ -1,9 +1,12 @@
 # IMPORTANT: This file is NOT used by coder.com!
-# The coder.com website uses Next.js and reads redirects from:
+#
+# The coder.com website runs on Vercel with Next.js and reads redirects from:
 #   https://github.com/coder/coder.com/blob/master/redirects.json
 #
 # If you need to add a redirect for coder.com/docs, update that file instead.
-# This _redirects file is only useful for static hosting platforms like Netlify.
+#
+# The _redirects format is used by Netlify and Cloudflare Pages for static
+# hosting, but it's unclear if this file serves any purpose currently.
 
 # Redirect old offline deployments URL to new airgap URL
 /install/offline /install/airgap 301

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@`
`1`	`1`	`{`
`2`		`- "ignores": ["PLAN.md"],`
	`2`	`+ "ignores": ["PLAN.md", "docs/_redirects"],`
`3`	`3`	`}`