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#110499 - 2003-12-17 01:45 PM Question for Moderator
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This may have been asked many times before and if so, sorry for the duplication. Are any changes to the new site being made that will enable bookmarks from the old site to work correctly?

Thanks.

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#110500 - 2003-12-17 02:03 PM Re: Question for Moderator
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This has been discussed extensively between the moderators. MCA has discussed some items related to this and other issues with Henri.

As far as the broken links go, MCA has the history of the old posts and I think you can look up the old post title on his site then search this site - not a good solution. With a great deal of effort the links could be corrected.

We are fixing individual posts as they come to our attention.

Maybe MCA will drop by and give us the details if I missed or misrepresented something.
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#110501 - 2003-12-17 03:24 PM Re: Question for Moderator
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One can always use the BBS Search to find related topics.
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#110502 - 2003-12-18 12:32 AM Re: Question for Moderator
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Dear,

Possible, you have already see some changes.
Current status
  • The message
    Quote:


    We cannot proceed.
    This post can no longer be edited because the maximum edit time has
    expired
    Please use your back button to return to the previous page.




    will only return when you are trying to edit posts older than three years
  • The signature had a 100 character limit. Currently you can add signatures with a length of 1024 characters.
  • Previously the IP-address was showed. This can be influence the privacy of members.
    Henri has disabled it.

Other issues are still running. Some of those elements is, that the problem
with the broken links will be solved too.
greetings.

btw: we appreciate that you will put any suggestion, question or other remark about the new board
on this board. We will combine them together and forward them to Henri.
Mostly it starts with a discussion between the moderators.

btw: our signature shows direct URLs to FAQs and UDFs mirror. Currently based on the old UBB.Classic board.
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#110503 - 2003-12-18 01:12 AM Re: Question for MCA
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Just how does this relate to the question of broken links?
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#110504 - 2003-12-18 01:17 AM Re: Question for MCA
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Quote:

Other issues are still running. Some of those elements is, that the problem
with the broken links will be solved too.



MCA does mention that it'll get solved, too.
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#110505 - 2003-12-18 01:19 AM Re: Question for MCA
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Dear Les,

We are informing about actual status of this board. About solving the broken we are
spoking with Henri about it. An automatic redirection is the best way in our opinion
to solve it. It prevent the necessary to change all previous posts.

Henri takes action on the most urgent ones and implement some other wishes.
greetings.
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#110506 - 2003-12-18 01:28 AM Re: Question for MCA
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I saw that line... was talking about all the stuff before it.
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#110507 - 2003-12-18 03:41 AM Re: Question for MCA
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saw that too and thought the same

MCA, what has redirection to do with broken links?
you can't automate the redirection to the correct post anyways, so that is no solution.
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#110508 - 2003-12-18 03:52 AM Re: Question for MCA
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Dear,

It is possible to redirect any old URL to the proper new URL link. Of course, some
additional things are necessary to make it possible but it is possible. Some short
tries work in a proper way.
To make it possible isn't a simple task.
greetings.
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#110509 - 2003-12-18 03:24 PM Re: Question for MCA
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You would need a look-up table with the old and new number. Additionally, a custom Error-404 HTML page that looks at the URL for the not-found page, extracts the post number and then issues a redirect to the new corrsponding new post bunber on the new BBS.
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#110510 - 2003-12-18 03:33 PM Re: Question for MCA
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Dear,

We aren't using something like the non-found page. Each old URL will be reachable, but it will be redirected directly to the new URL.
A non-found page may have some unwanted site-effects in our opinion.
Also we have to deal with different format of URLs. Handling those different format is costing us most of the time. Normally it was handling by the CGI scripts.
greetings.
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