An update has gone through that should help with some of the re-mapping to the forum links from external pages (searching on Google and clicking a link), but I see it’s still not working on Rama’s
I’ve reported your case and please know we’re digging in!
Perhaps it is because on new versions releases I have changed the topic title before. In the previous forums all of the topic title versions continued to work regardless of changes.
However for now it seems none of the urls are working. Even the latest one from the old forum.
Please, we already suffer A LOT when links to the wiki got broken in the wiki update, don’t leave this broken and do something to successfully redirect to the new URL standard.
It’s a stab in the back to us the devs to lose all the content that is available on guides, tutorials and forums discussions!
I’m guessing the ship has sailed on keeping old post IDs in the new system… but it should be possible to remap incoming requests to the old forum-style URLs:
/showthread.php?<OLDPOSTID>
To the new post ID:
/t/<NEWPOSTID>
Of course this would require using a data table generated by the conversion to Discourse, mapping all the old post IDs to the new ones…
Google will update to the new URLs in due time (or may have already), but every AnswerHub post, Twitter post, YouTube description, personal blog, etc out there linking to the old URLs are now dead…
Hey all - we’ve run a script to update these links and restore the missing topics/posts. The ones you’ve shared here all appear to be working for me. Would you mind confirming that they are for you as well?
Most of the ones I’d previously tested now seem to be working, including links to individual posts.
However, I’ve found some links using the showthread.php?<postID> format linking to individual posts within those threads, that just go to the top of the thread. For example:
On the bright side, I’ve tried some other direct links to posts using the more recent verbose URL style, which seem to redirect correctly. For example, this old sub-post link:
Yes, as you described, the old format (showthread.php?) URLs that point to a specific post are just pointing to the topic right now. Apparently those IDs are a little more difficult to map out and will take longer to get sorted.
Today’s update hopefully makes the general experience more friendly, and resolves a majority of the link issues while we manage the others.
Understood – teething pains are to be expected. Overall IMHO the Discourse UX is really nice compared to the old system (and I’m much more accustomed to old school style forums)… we’ll adapt in due time