ilko_t Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 I've just noticed today the link in my signature no longer works, redirecting me to the msfn.org home page:http://www.msfn.org/board/WinSetupFromUSB-...UI-t120444.htmlThe correct link now is:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157Many links to topics in that forum do not work as well, for example:http://www.msfn.org/board/FAQs-t116766.htmlI have received an email with notice about a new PM. Opening the link inside the email, to go straight to the PM, opened msfn.org start page as well.Would someone have a look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 They have turned off the search engine optimization function. Don't know if it's a temporary thing or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 (edited) I've just noticed today the link in my signature no longer works, redirecting me to the msfn.org home page:http://www.msfn.org/board/WinSetupFromUSB-...UI-t120444.htmlThe correct link now is:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157Not really. The correct link is now:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444The link:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157links to the "Install XP from USB forum"The "correct" link is:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444Just in case it is relatively easy to translate from this (so called "friendly names") - NOT working right now:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/WinSetupFromUSB-with-GUI-t120444.htmlto this always working:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444The number of the thread with friendly names is after the "t" and before the .html, you just get it and add it after:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=I quickly fixed the links in the FAQ's:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=116766as they are (hopefully) the most used ones. jaclaz Edited August 18, 2009 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xper Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 Yes, SEO links turned off after license expired. To expensive to renew right now.Sorry for trouble caused by this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharlotteTheHarlot Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the excellent explanation Jaclaz. For those using Opera, if you have bookmarks/favorites to the MSFN site you will need to edit the file called Opera6.adr which on my systems is found under the Opera directory in a subfolder called \Profile. This is a plain text file that can be easily edited (but probably only while Opera is not running). ASCII search for a simple string like msfn.org/ to be sure to catch all possible variations.If you save a lot of Sessions like me, you will also need to venture into another subfolder another level down called \Profile\Sessions. Do a Windows FIND in there and look for the msfn.org string to catch all the files (sessions) which saved tabs pointing to MSFN. Then proceed to edit these files as above (they are also ASCII but in UTF-8, UltraEdit works fine).The details are found above in Post #3, but to summarize, replace the links with the appropriate lines:h--p://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=xxh--p://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=xxxxxxAll of the 'x' need to be replaced with the correct identifiers (and of course the http)! Edited August 19, 2009 by CharlotteTheHarlot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xper Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 OK, i think it's fixed now. SEO installed and working. Post any issue here. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 OK, i think it's fixed now. SEO installed and working. Post any issue here. Thank you.Everything seems fine. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted August 18, 2009 Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Post any issue here."Go to first unread" doesn't work (goes to top of the page). Opera browser.Kind of deja vu...GLEdit: I found it. Edited August 18, 2009 by GrofLuigi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrofLuigi Posted August 20, 2009 Share Posted August 20, 2009 Post any issue here."Go to first unread" doesn't work (goes to top of the page). Opera browser.I see other people reported it, so I was not dreaming. It's fixed now.GL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilko_t Posted August 22, 2009 Author Share Posted August 22, 2009 OK, i think it's fixed now. SEO installed and working. Post any issue here. Thank you.Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 19, 2009 Share Posted September 19, 2009 Has something been changed again? Direct link to post don't work anymore properly.The result is that instead of pointing to the actual post they point to the page (nothing/10/20/30/40/50/...etc) where the post is.Example:the link to the previous post by ilko_t given in the copy and paste popup is this one:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=137119&view=findpost&p=878576which once "resolved" by the board becomes:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-forum-issue-t137119-pid-878576.htmlbut the result is that the first post on the page is shown, not the pointed to one.Even the "other" old syntax:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=findpost&pid=878576resolves to:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-forum-issue-t137119-pid-878576.htmlwith the same resultUsing "post offset within thread" it should be (with the"new" "page" definition):hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-forum-issue-t137119-page-9.htmlor, with the good ol' "&st=" one:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=137119&st=9which BTW is now resolved as:hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-forum-issue-t137119-page-9.html&s=jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Using the different link formats are a license issue for us. As noted, a period of time we had to go back to using the forum/topic format. This was an unfortunate lag period between the license expiry/renewal and being able to install the new license (and verify it is ok) in order to get the "preview" type of format. Yes it does play an issue with some posts, such as older ones with quotes and such, but there is really no easy way to fix it without taking the forum down for a long time and doing a ton of work. That time isn't really worth it so we just hope that you (and me too even ) can handle that period of time when it is different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 That time isn't really worth it so we just hope that you (and me too even ) can handle that period of time when it is different.No prob about that, but I must have failed to explain the issue at hand NOW.If you try to make a link to a specific post through the board the result is NOT a link to the post, but rather a link to the PAGE where the specific post is.This has nothing to do with the different "syntax" used, it's the board software that FAILS to resolve a link (that was generated by the Board itself) to a post and returns a page.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 EDIT:I am not having a problem at all. Using your post linkhxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=137119&view=findpost&p=878576on paste becomes:http://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-forum-issue-t137119-pid-878576.html#entry878576but copy the #10 gives this:http://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-forum-issue-t137119-pid-878576.html&view=findpostand translates tohttp://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-forum-issue-t137119-pid-884506.html#entry884506Which is my post. OK I see what you are saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 It seems like everything is working now. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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