Consider 301 redirect to canonical URL

[captbaritone]

Currently it's possible for the addition of a new meme, or a change in our algorithm to change how existing URLs render.

This is probably always true to some degree, but we could help a bit by redirecting to some kind of canonical representation of the image. Maybe the explicit file name?

That way at least any any URL that has been resolved will be stable.

[lamby]

This would certainly make it clearer what is happening if you go to, for example, http://urlme.me/loldoesnotexist/whut.

[captbaritone]

I think the file name would be good thing to replace the first parameter with, since the file system will enforce that they are unique. Then we just need to ensure images are purely additive. And that our algorithm prefers exact matches.

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