New Forum Issue: Forum links did NOT get converted.
Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)
Posts: 23,514
Here's a post I made that has an internal forum link:
Phase Detection with Modulated Return Signals?
The link did not get converted to point to the new forum, and the old link redirects to this forum's home page. As a consequence, the one good thing I thought the new forum had going for it has also failed.
I seriously do not see any reason to post anything of substance to the forum until either we get it rolled back to the old forum, or some miracle occurs and Parallax is able to get this thing to work. I'm not holding my breath for the latter, though. Seriously, guys, give us the old forum back! There's no shame in retreat, but there is in stubbornness.
-Phil
Phase Detection with Modulated Return Signals?
The link did not get converted to point to the new forum, and the old link redirects to this forum's home page. As a consequence, the one good thing I thought the new forum had going for it has also failed.
I seriously do not see any reason to post anything of substance to the forum until either we get it rolled back to the old forum, or some miracle occurs and Parallax is able to get this thing to work. I'm not holding my breath for the latter, though. Seriously, guys, give us the old forum back! There's no shame in retreat, but there is in stubbornness.
-Phil
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EDIT: You may have had that open in another tab. I hade the same happen when I had you Triangulation with Ping Array open from three days ago. I went to go to the next page, and got new forum home page.
It's not the link in my post above, but the link at that link that did not get converted:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php/105674
-Phil
Once the migration dust settles, I will begin migrating my project threads over to a wordpress site on some of my own web space. I have a lot invested into project threads that only exist on these forums and to have them degrade from migrations is unacceptable in my opinion. I already lost some mini projects that were in my blogs.
see you guys in a couple weeks..........
Phase Detection with Modulated Return Signals?
The link did not get converted to point to the new forum, and the old link redirects to this forum's home page. As a consequence, the one good thing I thought the new forum had going for it has also failed.
Hopefully, quite soon, someone will do a link-sweep pass.
I'm curious how you created the first link, as I can find no way to reference a individual post in this new forum ?Addit: Ah.. just spotted hidden under the timestamp of any post is thishttp://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1334177/#Comment_1334177
Hopefully, quite soon, someone will do a link-sweep pass.
That's about the only thing they can do at this point, though the time for it was during the migration, not after the fact. Now, any mangling that a misbehaving script might make to the links will do so on a live forum. During the migration the worst thing would be they'd have to rerun the scripts to pull the data from the old forum.
http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/comment/1334216/#Comment_1334216
so maybe that can be quickly fixed, so as not to confuse Google engines in the meantime ?
It would have been better to have rewritten the links in message bodies during the migration, but we'll take anything at this point. The reason to have revised the links in the messages is that Google uses those as internal link references, and gives some SEO juice to them. It won't if it always sees these links are redirected, which they would (and should) be.
For in-message links, since the rewriting wasn't done in the data, maybe consider adding a hook into the HTML parser. Not entirely sure what Vanilla offers, but it probably can look for, and rewrite, URLs in link tags without much additional server load (it's already parsing pages as it is). That way, links inside messages are updated before anyone -- user, Google -- sees it.
A benefit of this approach is that it returns the opportunity to get some juice on the internal links. Those links, already parsed and updated, don't need any further server URL rewriting.
I think this is something that can be addressed with some clever coding. Still remaining on my list is the limited categories. Really, it's a show-stopper for me and my participation here. Thus why I have been yammering about it so much.
http://vanillaforums.com/resources/migration-best-practices
Did we do that?
#3 in that list was telling. Did we do this soft launch thing? Stakeholders -- moderators like you -- should have been involved in a beta. By the responses here, that didn't happen. Parallax is used to a testing phase, and as painful as it can be, it always results in a better product in the end.
http://vanillaforums.com/resources/migration-best-practices
Links now correctly being redirected as originally intended.
-Phil