Channels & viewing

[trothatl]

The URLs for all apps in the web-based Roku channel store were recently changed to a new and much longer format. For example, the old URL for Hulu:

https://channelstore.roku.com/details/f76641b3d5ac45cfde74ee8361bda4bc/hulu

Was changed to:

https://channelstore.roku.com/details/d8f548dedc438e25dabc4184ee96adb3:a4d7da23116a16ee782b9fa821b3b...

Unfortunately, the old URLs do not redirect to the new URLs, but instead go to channelstore.roku.com/browse. This means that all links from non-Roku websites to the Roku channel store are now broken - a problem for anyone trying to promote their Roku app by directing users to the channel store. Links from Google searches are also broken.

Why didn't Roku set up a redirect for the new URLs? They did this years ago when the format was changed. The original Netflix URL, https://channelstore.roku.com/details/12/netflix, still redirects to the newest format, but the URL from just a week or two ago, https://channelstore.roku.com/details/96da35e0bce6c184b61e445cc6e62203/netflix, redirects to channelstore.roku.com/browse instead of the new Netflix URL. 

[makaiguy]

Paging Roku employees @RokuAustin, @RokuMaryEF, @RokuCarly, and any other moderators for follow up.