[ENHANCEMENT] Add suggestions to 404 feature page

[jcscottiii]

Background: GoogleChrome/chromium-dashboard#4811 (comment)

Idea:

Given I am a user going to a nonexistent feature page features/${BAD_ID}, upon reaching the 404 page (Maybe we should make a 404 page just for feature requests), I should see a list of suggested feature ids if they exist.

Implementation:

• The 404 feature page should make a query to the /v1/features API with the query parameter set to q=${BAD_ID}. If it gets any results back, present the list as a suggested list of features.

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Other alternatives:

• Replacing the "Go back home" button with a "Search for similar names" button?

[Jynx2004]

Hello @jcscottiii . I have come up with a solution . Maybe we can show the list of suggested features if we get the response from the
/v1/features API with the query parameter set to q=${BAD_ID} . But if we get an empty response , then we can show a button displaying "Search for similar names".

[jcscottiii]

I have come up with a solution . Maybe we can show the list of suggested features if we get the response from the /v1/features API with the query parameter set to q=${BAD_ID} . But if we get an empty response , then we can show a button displaying "Search for similar names".

Hi @Jynx2004,

I am trying to understand your proposed solution. Are you proposing a separate endpoint to search for similar names? Currently, the only way to search for similar named features would be to use /v1/features?q=BAD_ID. So that would give us the same list regardless if we show the list on the 404 page or present a button that redirects them to the homepage search with the same BAD_ID (which then would use /v1/features?q=BAD_ID).

[suprith-hub]

@jcscottiii if I am right,
If user search for webstatus.dev/features/non-existent, feature.
We should present a button Search for Similar Results which will redirect to webstatus.dev/?q=non-existent.
Is it what supposed to be done ?
Also for webstatus.dev/${BAD_ID} and webstatus.dev/feature/${BAD_ID}?
I think these are most common cases which can occur...