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Does anybody know if Parallax is still planning to fix the broken SX links

Capt. QuirkCapt. Quirk Posts: 872
edited 2010-12-01 16:24 in General Discussion
The last positive answer I received was 2 months ago?

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2010-11-11 01:07
    Good question, but I've already filled my quota of suggestions for 2010, maybe 2011 as well.

    I see that www.piclist.com is now defunt, but www.sxlist.com is still alive and well. Supporting them may best carry on the survival of SX creativity.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-11-11 07:16
    What broken SX links? Where?

    -Phil
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2010-11-11 07:32
    @Phil
    At the Parallax store site, the Forum page still shows SX Forum and Hydra Forum. Somebody is asleep at the wheel. Changes in the Forum have to be coordinated with with the Store or new customer or even old customers may loose heart.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-11-11 07:51
    You might want to repost this in the "Suggestions to Parallax" forum in that case, so their WebDev team will see it.

    -Phil

    Addendum: I went to this page and didn't see any problems with the links. Which store page are you referring to. Link please?
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2010-11-11 08:28
    I am wrong, I thought the links below were broken. I guess that is the same page.

    http://www.parallax.com/tabid/392/Default.aspx

    All these recent changes are getting very tedious to adapt to. Capt. Quirk needs to elaborate.

    BUT...
    At least the informational sticky that Capt Quirk created in the SX forum is complete trash.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-11-11 09:04
    Loopy Byteloose wrote:
    At least the informational sticky that Capt Quirk created in the SX forum is complete trash.
    Those links could not be converted during the forum remigration because Capt. Quirk edited the post after the initial migration. Had the post been remigrated, all of his edits would have been lost.

    The only 100% solution at this point would be for him to use my link conversion tool here to convert them by hand. It's unfortunate, since there are so many of them; but, by using a separate browser tab with copy and paste, it should go rather quickly. The only other solution would be for me to use the conversion too and convert everything from the original post in the old forum, which would mean that his subsequent edits will be lost.

    -Phil
  • Capt. QuirkCapt. Quirk Posts: 872
    edited 2010-11-11 23:52
    I only modified the top 5 or 6 links? after a month or so:( and I sent a list of those links to tech support when they posted their message.


    Thanks for the tool Phil. I'll rebuild it :) Stuff like this is what dual monitors live for!
  • Capt. QuirkCapt. Quirk Posts: 872
    edited 2010-12-01 10:22
    To Phil or Jim Ewald;

    Wouldn't be easier for me to just add "inc" to all the url's. Then you guys could just use your converter to do everything at one time?

    Bill M.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-12-01 10:33
    Bill,

    No, that would not help. The problem with using the converter is that it takes the old forum as input to rebuild the post in the new forum. If you've edited the post since the original migration, all those edits would be lost, and you'd have to do them over again. That's the reason that posts which were edited got skipped during the remigration: we didn't want to undo anyone's work.

    -Phil
  • Capt. QuirkCapt. Quirk Posts: 872
    edited 2010-12-01 11:07
    Is there an easy way to convert the aspx code to php?

    http://forums.parallax.com/

    (from this) "forums/default.aspx?f=7&m=173639"
    (to this?) "showthread.php?p=633760"

    I don't know, but it looks as though I could relpace "forums/default.aspx?f=7&m" with "showthread.php?p" and then convert the number on the end? (most likely not that simple?)

    If not, It doesn't matter, I have the thread converted to a .spin file. The prop tool is doing a good job of keeping everything readable and organized.
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2010-12-01 16:24
    It's easier than that. Just follow the instructions here:

    -Phil
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