Anchors broken for home page

[thewoolleyman]

From some applications (e.g. Gmail and Slack OSX Desktop app), anchors on the home page are broken.

This is because they turn two consecutive hashes (##) into the second one url-escaped (#%23).

E.g., if you paste this into slack app or send in gmail, then click it:

https://mysite.com/##header

You get sent to this page (which obviously 404s):

https://mysite.com/#%23header

This only happens on the root page (which is the only one with consecutive hashes in the URL), so one solution would be to use mysite/#/ (with a trailing slash) as the root, instead of just mysite/#. However, this seems to work on real sites (served via nginx), but not when served locally via mkdocs serve.

[dsagal]

Actually it looks like gmail escapes all hash # characters after the first one, even when they are not consecutive.