Links within the forum are not working

Hello everyone,

It’s a known issue that there are links from one topic to another topic within the forums, or to the old forums site. These are painful to translate over, and there are well over 3500 of them. I may attempt to translate them, or I may leave them as is.

However, for the short term, maybe the next 30 days, I have removed the limit on editing posts, so posts from the beginning of time may be edited. (typically after a month, the site no longer allows edits to posts.)

I’m open to ideas on the translation, but it’s a daunting task, even for me. :wink:

–Joel

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I use a command line utility called Pandoc to reformat my podcast summaries from the original Reddit markdown format to wikicode. I’m sure that bbcode or similar would also be options in its toolbox, but I’m not sure how easily it could be applied on the back end to do everything at once. Might be worth looking at?

Wait… or is it specifically that URLs for the forum itself have changed and that’s why they’re broken. That’s a tougher nut to crack.

The problem is that URL’s changed entirely. So for instance, this:

https://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/a-guide-to-serpent-slumbering-beneath-the-island-10888

Became this:

https://forums.greaterthangames.com/t/a-guide-to-serpent-slumbering-beneath-the-island/17388

Which, in some cases, can be replaced easily, because https://forums.greaterthangames.com/t/a-guide-to-serpent-slumbering-beneath-the-island/ (without the ID number) works just fine. I’m not sure that will work for all links, though.

If no better solution comes up, you could do a find-replace with a few lines of code, depending on the backend.

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Your example gives me some ideas, so we’ll see how it goes. :slight_smile:

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