Linking to specific thread posts has changed

[skaa he/him]

 

I just discovered that the new site no longer uses HTML anchors with name attributes to mark each post in a thread. So, for example, this URL...

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6062-theory-each-shardworld-has-an-essence/?page=2#entry410544

... that once pointed to a post I made in one of my theory threads no longer points to that particular post. Instead, it just displays the top of that thread's page 2.

The new way of linking to the post is to use this URL instead:

http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6062-theory-each-shardworld-has-an-essence/?do=findComment&comment=410544

That will work. Unfortunately, this change means that a lot of existing links to posts no longer work. I'll probably be editing some of my favorite posts to update their links, but before I do that I just wanted to know if there's anything the admins can tweak to make the old links work again.

[Oversleep]

Fortunately, both links use post numbers (in this case 410544). The only thing to do would be running a script searching for Shard links and replacing "page=X#entry" with "do=findComment&comment=".

I don't know how difficult would that be, but I guess not very hard.

[Chaos he/him]

They indeed have. It might be possible to fix but please don't hold your breath. Things are more nontrivial than you would expect.