Hi,
After reading through the documentation, again, and then testing things within my own Tokyo instance. I can say that the functionality for redirection when accessing a retired article, that has an article specified in the "Replacement Article" field, does work and redirect to the selected article.
When an value is not selected for the "Replacement Article" field and you access that retired article, if you have higher level permissions (like admin), you'll see the retired article, if you don't have higher level permissions, you'll see an error message that you can't access the article.
The above outcomes align to what I read in the documentation. The notes about the 301 and 404 codes do not state that they would be redirected to a 404 page.
So in the end, if a value is selected for the "Replacement Article" field, it'll redirect you. If no value is selected, then the behavior is that it tries to show you the retired article and if you don't have the correct permission to see it, you won't see it and instead see an error message, somewhat like what is mentioned in the documentation.
If you're expecting any other functionality and you feel there's a bug or issue with the platform, please submit a ticket to SN Support for further assistance. Otherwise, I'm glad I could answer your question and provide guidance which in turn resulted in you creating an article with a video to show others how it works, as I've mentioned above.
Take care! 🙂
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