Replace legacy Scribd about URLs with current careers page#156
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Replace legacy Scribd about URLs with current careers page#156
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[WIP] Update outdated URLs for career opportunities
Replace legacy Scribd about URLs with current careers page
Mar 16, 2026
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Legacy
/about/engineeringand/about/data_scienceURLs in several blog posts point to dead paths. All instances updated tohttps://www.scribd.com/careers.Changes
_posts/2020-08-10-datadog-backup.md—/about/engineering→/careers_posts/2019-08-28-real-time-data-platform.md— two links updated (/about/engineering,/about/data_science)_posts/2019-03-04-experiments-with-seq2seq.md— both href and display text updated (/about/data_science)_posts/2019-02-07-calculating-customer-lifetime-revenue.md—/about/data_science→/careersOriginal prompt
Problem
Several blog posts contain outdated URLs pointing to
https://www.scribd.com/about/engineeringandhttps://www.scribd.com/about/data_sciencefor career opportunities. These URLs appear to be legacy paths that should be updated to the current careers page.Files to Update
Based on the search, the following blog posts need URL updates:
1.
_posts/2020-08-10-datadog-backup.mdLine 90 - Update the careers link at the end of the post:
Should be changed to:
2.
_posts/2019-08-28-real-time-data-platform.mdLine 19 - Update the company link:
Should be changed to:
Line 43 - Update the data science team link:
Should be changed to:
3.
_posts/2019-03-04-experiments-with-seq2seq.mdCheck line 107 area for:
Should be changed to:
4.
_posts/2019-02-07-calculating-customer-lifetime-revenue.mdCheck for references to
/about/data_scienceand update to/careersAcceptance Criteria
https://www.scribd.com/about/engineeringare replaced withhttps://www.scribd.com/careershttps://www.scribd.com/about/data_scienceare replaced withhttps://www.scribd.com/careersThe following is the prior conversation context from the user's chat exploration (may be truncated):
User: Somewhere within this organization is a line of code that redirects the user to "https://www.scribd.com/about.php". help me find it so I can fix the URL
Assistant: I wasn't able to find the URL "https://www.scribd.com/about.php" in repositories associated with your user account. This could mean:
The code might be in a specific organization - Could you specify which organization you're referring to? (e.g.,
org:organization-name)The URL might be formatted differently - It could be:
base_url + "/about.php")The repository might be private - If it's in a private org/repo I don't have access to, please provide the specific repository name (e.g.,
owner/repo)Could you provide:
This will help me narrow down the search and find the exact line you need to fix.
User: I expect it to be within the scribd organiation. It could absolutely be constructed, so look for those
Assistant: Great! I found a match. Looking at the results, I can see a reference in a blog post that mentions
https://www.scribd.com/about.php. Let me search more specifically for where this might be constructed or used as a redirect in the codebase:Assistant: Great! I found it! The URL
https://www.scribd.com/about.phpappears to be constructed in the scribd/scribd.github.io repository. Let me get more details:Wait, that's showing
/about/engineering, notabout.php. Let me search more specifically for the.phpextension:Assistant: Great! I found it! 🎉
The URL
https://www.scribd.com/about.phpis constructed in the scribd.github.io repository (your tech blog). Here's the exact location:Wait, actually that's
/about/engineering, not/about.php. Let me search more specifically for the.phpexten...This pull request was created from Copilot chat.
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