Aaron Skinner

Guys,

I know it's not the answer you wanted but with the change of software this is the result as I understand it. We are doing our best to keep you informed of what we can do and what we can't do. This is one of those things that can't be changed.

Cheers, Aaron

Aaron,

I appreciate and admire your candid. But I am still extremely disappointed at the lack of planning of the forum "upgrade" and its results. There are only a few who come here to complain. They are the more active participants and cares.

Is this a result of shoe string budget because funding is difficult to get from the big bosses and the forum is considered a free service by them? Is it because the responsible person from the editorial staff does not usually participate in the forum. I don't believe it is too much to ask for this much transparency.

Matt, can you comment? I hope that you see this.

Guys,

I know it's not the answer you wanted but with the change of software this is the result as I understand it. We are doing our best to keep you informed of what we can do and what we can't do. This is one of those things that can't be changed.

Cheers, Aaron

Aaron Skinner

Unfortunately, the broken links will have to be fixed manually. The change over reassigned the labels and those links were lost. I wish I had better news.

Cheers, Aaron

Aaron,

I hate to say this. What you just said is telling all the FSM supporters that the forum change-over is ill conceived and poorly executed.

No organization would have accept the reassignment of archive labels WITHOUT traceability.

Would you ask the person responsible for the forum "upgrade" why he implemented or accepted this type of change. By the way, did this person ever used the forum before he got this assignment?

We are all waiting.

Aaron Skinner

Unfortunately, the broken links will have to be fixed manually. The change over reassigned the labels and those links were lost. I wish I had better news.

Cheers, Aaron

That's just AWESOME!!!!

Unfortunately, the broken links will have to be fixed manually. The change over reassigned the labels and those links were lost. I wish I had better news.

Cheers, Aaron

Aaron, I'm adding my voice to his question. I've linked to many older posts in the same way, and those are broken. Hopefully not irretrievably broken.

Aaron,

Yes, I know that the posts are there and I can find them using the correct keyword. But I may not know what keyword to use.

But the "link to another post" in an older post no longer work. For example in this post last year 2009, I have a link to an even old post in 2008:

This is a follow-up of my post from last year (2008).

The syntax of the link to the 2008 post is /forums/968412/ShowPost.aspx. It does not work in the new forum, but I know the old post number is "968412" according to the 2009 link. If I do not remember what this older 2008 post is all about, how do I find it? Searching for the post number does not work.

keilau

Yes, I know they are still there, but not easily found.

I found the links in old posts (prior to the new forum) were broken. I tried the search function with no success. The search function does not work with the old post number.

I am no programmer. But in my simple-minded thinking, all it needs are a few lines of script. First, detect the old link syntax, then, redirect it to the post with the "new, improved" link syntax. It should be fairly simple. Right?

I first posted this in Dec 25, 2009, but never heard from any staff. This is a re-post.

Which posts are you looking for? To the best of our knowledge everythihng should be there and accessible through the search engine which is functioning now. You may need to expand the search through sorting and filtering.

Cheers, Aaron

Yes, I know they are still there, but not easily found.

Ask and ye shall receive!!! 

THANKS AARON!!!!

YES!

Thanks, Aaron!!

bbrowniii

Sounds like you guys (some of you anyways) had better luck than me - I could not even get into the forum for most of the day yesterday.  I got a BRAND NEW error message that I had never seen before...

 

On a different note:

Hey Aaron,

In the last few days a lot of folks have commented on how disappointing it is that the front page, while it does show recent posts activity, does not show the forums those threads can be found in.  Again, it is a navigation thing, since some posts might have similar sounding titles, but will attract a different crowd depending on if they are in ships or sci-fi, for example.  Your tech guys added the name of the original and most recent poster, can they add the forum name too?  (Or would that be too much like the 'old way'?)

Done!

Bgrigg

Boyd, the site was down for most of the day yesterday, and yes, it was a previously unseen error.

I catch an error every time I come here, refreshing doesn't work, but closing the page and opening it up again works. Mildly frustrating!

Unfortunately for me, the only solution to the errors I get is to walk away and get a cup of coffee and try the site again in a few hours....  WICKED frustrating...(Little New England lingo for ya there...)

bbrowniii

Hey Aaron,

In the last few days a lot of folks have commented on how disappointing it is that the front page, while it does show recent posts activity, does not show the forums those threads can be found in.  Again, it is a navigation thing, since some posts might have similar sounding titles, but will attract a different crowd depending on if they are in ships or sci-fi, for example.  Your tech guys added the name of the original and most recent poster, can they add the forum name too?  (Or would that be too much like the 'old way'?)

That would be handy, I've replied to a few advice type threads (paint problem, glue etc) and sometimes it can be really hard to find them again since they can be in a couple of places (general modeling, tools, paint & air brushing or one of the modeling forums). 

Boyd, the site was down for most of the day yesterday, and yes, it was a previously unseen error.

I catch an error every time I come here, refreshing doesn't work, but closing the page and opening it up again works. Mildly frustrating!

Sounds like you guys (some of you anyways) had better luck than me - I could not even get into the forum for most of the day yesterday.  I got a BRAND NEW error message that I had never seen before...

On a different note:

Hey Aaron,

In the last few days a lot of folks have commented on how disappointing it is that the front page, while it does show recent posts activity, does not show the forums those threads can be found in.  Again, it is a navigation thing, since some posts might have similar sounding titles, but will attract a different crowd depending on if they are in ships or sci-fi, for example.  Your tech guys added the name of the original and most recent poster, can they add the forum name too?  (Or would that be too much like the 'old way'?)

To make it even weirder I was only getting that error on posts I either started or posted in, all the rest were fine.

Everything seems to be working ok now though.

I  have been receiving the error message all day. Was the site being updated and I missed the  message.

It's finally back on line. I even tried logging in on my wife's computer thinking I had a problem on mine.

One strange thing about this most recent error, is that refreshing the page doesn't clear the error. Only closing the page and opening up a new instance does the trick. With the memory error, refreshing would eventually work. Don't know if that's a clue for the IT crew or not, but it allows me to ratchet up my post count!

Got the fingers crossed!

Gents,

We have had some issues with the Internet connections here today so it's possible these errors are related to that problem. Let's see if they continue after today and go from there.

Cheers, Aaron

We must be packing some bad karma!

Bill,

I just got one of those too!!

Ah, we are soooo close....  why won't these stinkin' errors just go away??

Just got the following error. This is one I hadn't seen before!

Server Error in '' Application.

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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Line 15:         
Line 16:         // Grab the rewritten url name
Line 17:         string url = current.RewrittenUrlName.ToLower();
Line 18:         
Line 19:         

Aaron,

Started getting the "out of memory" error again! Not as prevalent as before. I'm wondering if the server is getting overloaded on the weekend. Is the backup starting too early? Something like that?

Good one, Bgrigg!

The cat house is the shortest route possible to the dog house!

Thanking You.

Dont you guys prefer the Cat House to the Dog House?

Hope my missus dont see this post or

Andrew

Thanks for the update Aaron!  Appreciate your keeping us in the loop.