Boni opened this issue on Apr 14, 2015 · 119 posts
WandW posted Wed, 15 April 2015 at 7:01 AM
Many of the RDNA Forum links from the archived Wiki pages above don't work if you click them because the destination page isn't archived, but if one copies and pastes the address, and deletes the part before http://runtimedna..., the thread will load.
That's another thing that really pisses me off. I'm a professional developer of web-based applications. I know how URLs are parsed and mapped to content. There is absolutely no reason that the link format has ever needed to change. So long as threadId is presented, it can be mapped to whatever content structure you actually have. The fact that the original thread identifiers still work shows that this is purely a syntactical change that has only one function - to prevent existing links from working. I know the developers will say they needed to change the link URL format, but they have nothing behind the original format and it is simplicity itself (literally like 5 minutes work) to write a route and controller that reroutes old-style links to the new controllers.
They changed how individual messages are accessed; they now are accessed as tag on the thread, instead of directly. It likely would have been easy to deal with at the time, but the older posts are now full of dead links. Lest I be branded a malcontent, I've been fixing the links in the Shader page of the Wiki, but the links to individual R'osity posts are going to require manual searching to locate them, which I'm working on...
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