From 667608a02c84a1b512af77ef3e9a86713682b2e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@nodebb.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:08:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: #8168 re-allowing slashes in homePageRoute

Resolves regression introduced by b0f3e48ac2ede6737e22f333ae6d7bbde126f16a
---
 src/user/settings.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/user/settings.js b/src/user/settings.js
index 0a1ca94839..23e0e95f77 100644
--- a/src/user/settings.js
+++ b/src/user/settings.js
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ module.exports = function (User) {
 		settings.restrictChat = parseInt(getSetting(settings, 'restrictChat', 0), 10) === 1;
 		settings.topicSearchEnabled = parseInt(getSetting(settings, 'topicSearchEnabled', 0), 10) === 1;
 		settings.bootswatchSkin = validator.escape(String(settings.bootswatchSkin || ''));
-		settings.homePageRoute = validator.escape(String(settings.homePageRoute || ''));
+		settings.homePageRoute = validator.escape(String(settings.homePageRoute || '')).replace('&#x2F;', '/');
 		settings.scrollToMyPost = parseInt(getSetting(settings, 'scrollToMyPost', 1), 10) === 1;
 		settings.categoryWatchState = getSetting(settings, 'categoryWatchState', 'notwatching');