Only redirect to single page results in "obviously the right thing to do" cases

[neilb]

If you enter a search in MetaCPAN that produces a single result, then you get redirected straight to it. Sometimes this feels like a good dwim (dwiw?) thing, but it can also produce WTF moments.

I searched for "Pete Armstrong" and got directed to the page for Acme::MetaSyntactic::moonwalkers, which confused the hell out of me. After trying it a few times, I asked on IRC.

How about changing the rule so that obvious DWIW cases get redirected to single pages, but if you've just typed some words, then don't redirect, but show the single result.

[oalders]

I ran into this myself and was scratching my head. I also didn't realize this was default behaviour for single results. :)

[oalders]

@rwstauner kindly pointed out that this issue is the result of #777, which was opened by @neilbowers ;)

[shadowcat-mst]

15:48 < mst> actually, I think it's just confusing in general
15:48 < mst> clicking 'search' and not getting a search results page makes me
think 'did I click feeling lucky by mistake?'
15:50 < vytas> haha, well said mst. it's kind of how I felt.

[neilb]

@oalders is clearly trying to stir up trouble.

[danaj]

I wonder if this is a similar issue. I search for "danaj" on metacpan and instead of getting the author page, or a list of author + modules (which I do for "ingy" or "oalders" or "nielb" or "mstrout"), I get directed to the Math::Goedel module, apparently because I'm listed as a contributer. WTF...

[rwstauner]

The single-result redirect has been removed.