Fixing broken links to "old" forum.

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Fixing broken links to "old" forum.

Post by tempomaster »

If you're like me and still working on your x0xb0x, you may run into awesome information that links to a different post in the forum. Well, at some point, the forum software was reinstalled/moved/reconfigured so many of those awesome old links don't work.

When you find a forum link that doesn't work do the following:
Example URL: http://www.ladyada.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=929

Copy this:

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https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?
Highlight the broken URL up to the very end, not highlighting "t=xxx"
Paste the above part that you copied over the highlight.

Your fixed URL will now look like:
viewtopic.php?t=929

t="xxx" is the topic number. The topic numbers have stayed the same, but the rest of the URL has changed. So, you can also just replace the topic number of any other posting with the topic number from the broken page.

:EDIT: changed the "COPY" URL
Last edited by tempomaster on Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Fixing broken links to "old" forum.

Post by antto »

f=12 is the subforum, 12 being "Making x0x"
"x0x m0dz" is 13

so that might require some more adjustments

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Re: Fixing broken links to "old" forum.

Post by tempomaster »

While this is true, it apparently doesn't matter what f=x is used.
Example:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=929
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=929
viewtopic.php?f=13&t=929

All go to the correct page.
In fact, the "f=x" is irrelevant. I've adjusted my "COPY" URL above.

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