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Broken Threads in New forums

GoreckiMike

By GoreckiMike,
Posted on: 2009-08-10 09:36 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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I understand that in moving from the Old to New forums, some of the hyperlinks point to posting numbers that do not exist anymore.

Is it possible, during some maintenance, that any such broken threads get color coded so the user does no go chasing any 404's?

 

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Originally Posted by Zombie_Man View Post
You'll need to get our forum html GreaseMonkeys who know how to do that to write a script for every link that references the old boards and flag it someway. Doubt Paragon Studios would put the effort into that.
They would not hve to write a web script for every link, one script run over all threads during a normal maintenance period. I have had them run on web sites in the past, no biggie.

 

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Originally Posted by Zombie_Man View Post
You'll need to get our forum html GreaseMonkeys who know how to do that to write a script for every link that references the old boards and flag it someway. Doubt Paragon Studios would put the effort into that.
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Originally Posted by GoreckiMike View Post
They would not hve to write a web script for every link, one script run over all threads during a normal maintenance period. I have had them run on web sites in the past, no biggie.
I don't think he meant there would be a different script each individual url. He probably meant that a personal script on your own browser would detect each link as it is displayed, which can be detected by things like showflat.php in the url, rather than the new showthread.php and showpost.php, and replace it with some sort of message or image that indicates that the link is for the old forum and will not work.

I haven't tinkered with such a thing, but I can't image it being very difficult.

But yes, you are right, the Dev's could probably do the same type of thing to the message database during a maintenance sometime, but as Zombie said, they might not, so this is the next best alternative.