viewtopic.php not available?

[dushkal]

Hi,

I'm trying since yesterday, but it seems that the old posts, shown by http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=xxx are no longer visible, I'm getting a standard 404 error. Also the new URLs to the threads seem to have changed to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=xxx but the thread ids are not same as the old one.....can someone throw more light?

TIA,
Dushkal

[fraser]

This is quite bad. It means that the majority of the links in the wiki are now broken. As are all the inter-forum links within the posts. Is it possible to create a viewtopic.php that redirects to the new link for the discussion? Is the mapping from old ID to new ID available? If so, you could even write a script to update the wiki & forum automatically.

A redirect would be simpler however. You'd want to preserve permalinks to individual posts if possible as some of the discussions are incredibly long with lots of links to particular key posts with cab files and such like.

[pof]

Flar, the forum admin is already aware of this issue... a solution might come after a while, just be patient :)

[pof]

Thanks to deckardt it is fixed now for the threadid and postid requests :)