today i learned that hugo always adds a slash to the ends of its urls, because:
spf13 commented on Sep 9, 2014
After a long debate, we discovered that the definitive correct behavior for a URL representing a directory was to end in a slash.
some hugo users don’t like this. i find this whole thing to be hilarious.
Sept 2014: How can I remove the trailing slash in pretty URLs? · Issue #492 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub
much discussion followed. here is only a sampling, May 2017 to Aug 2018: Hugo support for URLs without a trailing slash? - feature - HUGO
in 2017 a pull request was filed and not merged: Add option to strip trailing slashes from URLs by tgwizard · Pull Request #3556 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub
later in 2017, someone tried again, and this pr has comments all the way to FIVE DAYS AGO: Add an option to trim trailing slashes from URLs by jamieconnolly · Pull Request #3934 · gohugoio/hugo · GitHub
i’m dying
betaveros commented 5 days ago
Yup, I’m still here and still consider this feature essential for me to use Hugo, now for the additional lame reason that I’ve been hosting my site with a custom build including this feature for long enough that I would like to preserve my URLs. Even more of the tests have failed to rebase (and I really didn’t even check that the ones that I did rebase are working, so I have no idea if this code works generally at all) and maybe it should be a brand new PR at this point, but I would like a signal from the core devs as to whether this feature still has a chance at being merged before proceeding.
hahahahahahahaa/