Hello and thank you for your kind words!
This is
already discussed in our documentation. Let me remind you:
Existing URL. The URL where your visitors will be taken to. It's called "Existing" because it exists even when the URL Redirection feature is not enabled.
New URL. The relative path on your site which triggers the redirection. It's called "New" because it doesn't exist when the URL Redirection feature is disabled.
That's why we no longer call them "Old" and "New" since these terms are, indeed, ambiguous. This change was effected years ago, exactly for this reason.
Remember that you must think URL redirection from the perspective of
your current site, NOT the perspective of your
old site. URL redirection is not meant to be just for forwarding the now-extinct URLs of your old site to your new site's structure. It is meant as a generic URL redirection feature, one which can redirect to
any URL, internal or external. Therefore the terms reflect that. Otherwise it would be completely unusable for anything
except mapping an old site's URLs to the new site.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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