Remove trailing slashes and update redirected Ultralytics URLs

[pderrenger]

Canonicalizes every Ultralytics URL in the repo to its no-trailing-slash form and refreshes one stale redirect.

Changes

Trailing slashes — 72 URLs across 15 files

Removed the terminating path slash from every ultralytics.com / *.ultralytics.com URL. Only slashes that terminate a path were touched; path separators were never affected.

Area	Fixed	Examples
Model READMEs (9 dirs)	58	https://docs.ultralytics.com/ → https://docs.ultralytics.com, .../models/yoloe/ → .../models/yoloe
replicate_metadata.py	9	all nine paper_url SPECS entries (/tasks/segment/ → /tasks/segment)
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/*	6	config.yml Docs/Forum contact links, minimum-reproducible-example/ → ...-example
Root README.md	1	logo <a href> and Forums badge target

All rewritten destinations were verified live and return HTTP 200 with no redirect.

Redirect refresh — 1 accepted, 0 rejected

• https://reddit.com/r/ultralytics → https://www.reddit.com/r/ultralytics/ (root README Reddit badge). Permanent host canonicalization, and it matches the form already used in all nine model READMEs. This is the only URL in the repo where the scan proposed a change; the other 116 unique URLs resolved cleanly.

No dead links were reported by the scan.

Judgment calls (deliberately left unchanged)

• https://ultralytics.com/discord in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/config.yml — vanity shortlink meant to stay a redirect (its target is an expiring invite); it carries no trailing slash anyway.
• server=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.ultralytics.com inside the shields.io Forums badge — URL-encoded parameter, kept byte-identical; only the badge's link target was de-slashed.
• https://ultralytics.com/license file headers — bot-owned strings written by Ultralytics Actions; already slash-free.
• https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg in the CLI examples — a file path, not a directory terminator.
• Non-Ultralytics hosts (cocodataset.org/, pytorch.org/get-started/locally/, pypi.org/project/ultralytics/) are out of scope for the slash sweep and were left as-is.
• .github/workflows/push.yml is flagged by Prettier as unformatted, but that is pre-existing and untouched by this PR.

Validation

• Fixer regex was self-tested on 47 positive/negative cases before running: subdomains, protocol-relative and bare-host forms, /#fragment and /?query, sentence-final com/. and com/!, markdown/HTML/backtick delimiters, and negatives for github.com/ultralytics/..., emails, notultralytics.com, %3A%2F%2F-encoded params, {placeholder} templates, f-strings, and the ellipsis /....
• Re-verified after the redirect pass: zero Ultralytics URLs retain a terminating slash.
• python -m py_compile on both scripts, replicate_metadata.py --dry-run (all nine models), YAML parse of every cog.yaml and .github/**/*.yml, ruff format --check + ruff check clean, prettier@3.8.5 --print-width 120 --check clean on every changed file.

The diff is URL text only — no logic, formatting, or content changes.

🛠️ PR Summary

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🌟 Summary

Canonicalized 72 Ultralytics URLs across 15 files by removing trailing slashes and updated the root README Reddit link to its www canonical URL.

📊 Key Changes

• Removed trailing slashes from Ultralytics links in nine model READMEs, including documentation, forum, and model-page links.
• Updated all nine paper_url entries in replicate_metadata.py to slash-free documentation paths.
• Canonicalized documentation and forum links in .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE files and the root README.md.
• Changed the root README Reddit badge target from reddit.com/r/ultralytics to www.reddit.com/r/ultralytics/.
• The changed Ultralytics destinations were verified to return HTTP 200 without redirects; no dead links were reported.

🎯 Purpose & Impact

• Links now use consistent canonical URL forms and avoid redirects where verified.
• No user-facing change to model, inference, metadata-generation, or workflow logic; only link targets and URL text were modified.

[UltralyticsAssistant]

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🔍 PR Review

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Reviewed all 15 changed files and the full URL-only diff. The changes are limited to canonicalizing Ultralytics URLs and updating the Reddit redirect without altering runtime logic, metadata structure, or workflow behavior. No concrete bugs or regressions found. LGTM.

[UltralyticsAssistant]

🎉 Thank you, @pderrenger, and congratulations on the merged PR!

“Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin

This PR puts that principle into practice by canonicalizing 72 Ultralytics URLs across 15 files, reducing redirects and keeping links consistent without changing model or workflow logic.