Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-4654623-20150217014655/@comment-452-20150224132702

This was changed a few weeks ago, and I 100% agree with both your points.

See the comments of User_blog:Kirkburn/Technical_Update:_January_27,_2015 for some related discussion.

In addition to my comments there, I also submitted an incredibly detailed write up of why this is a bad idea, featuring several use-case scenarios of things which worked better beforehand, and several suggestions of alternate implementations.

Anyone who does not like the new redirect search behaviour should loudly complaint about it... although I have no idea if Wikia will actually do anything about it.

I hadn't thought of using soft redirects, but that's a bad idea as it will give Wikia positive feedback: "Since we stopped showing the name of redirects in search results, people are creating more pages, which means more ads, so we're making more money - great job team!"