Is there a trick to linking to old posts?

twm47099

These are links that result in "page not found" errors. For example thread 601870 contained basic help on P1ASM. Is it still "somewhere" that can be linked to or is it gone forever?

Thanks (and hopeful)
Tom

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

For whatever reason, the forum upgrade in 2015 did not fix up any internal links. To find an old post, use the search tool, and include as many terms as you can think of to narrow the search.

-Phil

twm47099

Phil,
Thanks that worked.
Tom

Clock Loop

Some web browsers and anti-malware software blocks the script that parallax uses for the search.
You can also use a google or google powered secure search engine like startpage, but sometimes google blocks services like startpage.
Sometimes you must go directly to the google search engine put the following in the search box.

Then in the search box I put:

site:forums.parallax.com "search terms"

So if I want to search for spdif on the forums, i could use.

site:forums.parallax.com spdif

laurent974

Yes there is one trick that can save you hours of search. You have to insert the number of the thread.

For instance, take an old link like this one:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?t=109665&highlight=emulators

t=[Number] => is the discussion number in the new web.

Instead, turn the URL into:
http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/[Number]

Et voila ! make "parallax old news" great again.
http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/109665


I wonder why web admins didn't roll a script to the database to change them.

evanh

Thanks for that Clock Loop.

I'm one of those that the forum search is completely dead. It never returns anything.

Wuerfel_21

evanh wrote: »

I'm one of those that the forum search is completely dead. It never returns anything.

you're not missing out on much. Google outperforms pretty much any forum's built-in search on a keyword search. While most forums have a nice parametric search to make up for it, this one sadly doesn't.