We apologize for the instability of composr.app and appreciate your patience. We are working on the statistics addon and trying to find an optimal way to store and render data. Unfortunately, we have yet to find a solution that can handle the traffic (and therefore, tens of millions of statistical records) of composr.app. We're working hard on one.
Or is it that transparent redirects were set up so the forum zone could show content from where the content natively is (like setting up forum:downloads --> site:downloads, for example), and Composr chose to generate a link under forum:downloads?
I think you mean the latter. I tested, and with no transparent redirect it went to the default zone, and with one it went to the forum zone.
I think that's probably what I'd expect as a webmaster, but really we haven't defined the behavior with any intentionality either way here. The link is written out into the comment topic as a URL (so it won't be flexible once it's populated) and we either need to make a call or let what is going to happen by default happen.
I mean that the actual content in the comment topic opens in the forum zone, rather than where it is actually located, which is not default (afaik). I will recheck the redirects but pretty sure there was none to cause this.
Is it therefore a broken link?
Or is it that transparent redirects were set up so the forum zone could show content from where the content natively is (like setting up forum:downloads --> site:downloads, for example), and Composr chose to generate a link under forum:downloads?
I think that's probably what I'd expect as a webmaster, but really we haven't defined the behavior with any intentionality either way here. The link is written out into the comment topic as a URL (so it won't be flexible once it's populated) and we either need to make a call or let what is going to happen by default happen.