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by diggan 549 days ago
I made a (now deleted) root comment about this, but saw someone else commented about it to.

All the links people have in their profiles basically doesn't work anymore. Maybe you could at least setup a redirect from the URL without the coordinates to the one with the coordinates, assuming when they set up the link, they used whatever first result you got back then. Basically run both versions (not literally), but redirect from the old one.

Good practice to keep URLs alive one way or another for as long as you can, as effectively all the links the initial group of users put no longer works as expected.