Most or all internal links I find in posts are broken in the sense that they point to the wrong page. I find that if I cut the page number by about half, then I can find the intended post. Below is one example.
There is a link to a poem found in a different thread
In this post, which is given in the new format...
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/has-anyone-seen-this-front-end-before.209658/post-3001597
...please find a link to the poem; it is the last link given in the post, as part of the last phase, "...(his words, not mine), which culminated in a masterpiece of poetry." Note: the link is not on the first line which also reads "a masterpiece of poetry." This link is in the old format.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid-state/2309-power-amp-driver-block-topology-6.html#post237453
Clicking the link, you will find that it incorrectly points to this page, page 6.
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/power-amp-driver-block-topology.2309/page-6#post237453
The actual poem is found on page three here,
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/power-amp-driver-block-topology.2309/page-3#post237453
Every link that I've encountered has been like this one.
There is a link to a poem found in a different thread
In this post, which is given in the new format...
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/has-anyone-seen-this-front-end-before.209658/post-3001597
...please find a link to the poem; it is the last link given in the post, as part of the last phase, "...(his words, not mine), which culminated in a masterpiece of poetry." Note: the link is not on the first line which also reads "a masterpiece of poetry." This link is in the old format.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/solid-state/2309-power-amp-driver-block-topology-6.html#post237453
Clicking the link, you will find that it incorrectly points to this page, page 6.
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/power-amp-driver-block-topology.2309/page-6#post237453
The actual poem is found on page three here,
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/power-amp-driver-block-topology.2309/page-3#post237453
Every link that I've encountered has been like this one.
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Interesting. On the old software we often had links that were wrong because they pointed to a page number, and those were different for different people who had different settings. A link taken from the post # always worked. I wonder if those page numbers where there in the links before we moved, or if they happened in translation?
One for the boys in the boiler room.
One for the boys in the boiler room.
The (unfortunately bad) link formats you mention never worked for anyone who had a different PPP (posts per page) than the person that posted them. They were broken before migration, and they are broken now. The only way they ever worked is if you guessed the PPP of the author. The correct way to grab a link was and remain to use the link in the top right of a post, not grab a URL from the browser URL bar.
That all said, we do have on the roadmap to go back and "correct" all the links that use the "bad" link format that existed pre-migration. It isn't going to happen for a while, but we can do it with some scripting.
Unfortunately the #post 237453 is not passed by a browser to a web server so it's impossible for the web server to determine where you might have wanted to go when you click that link (it would have to be done live with some JS wrangling, but I think we'll go for the nuclear option and rewrite old links so there isn't any JS nonsense going on in the front end).
That all said, we do have on the roadmap to go back and "correct" all the links that use the "bad" link format that existed pre-migration. It isn't going to happen for a while, but we can do it with some scripting.
Unfortunately the #post 237453 is not passed by a browser to a web server so it's impossible for the web server to determine where you might have wanted to go when you click that link (it would have to be done live with some JS wrangling, but I think we'll go for the nuclear option and rewrite old links so there isn't any JS nonsense going on in the front end).
I wonder if the magic number may often be 2.5. Before, 50/page was common, now we get 25/page.
Perhaps for some.
For me, my default had always been 10 posts per page and now with this new site my default is 20 posts per page. So for me dividing by two is sort of working. It gets clumsy on odd numbered pages. In those case I have to divide by "n-1" and start scrolling manually to look for posts that might be the intended one.
To the Developers:
- Between now and the scheduled fix, I wonder if an interim solution could be implemented through the search function ...where I'd enter the old link.
To avoid starting a new thread, maybe this example belongs here.
David's post #9250 in his Hornresp thread:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/hornresp.119854/page-463#post-5721038
Contains a a link back some pages within the same thread (you'll see it--it's all that's in there).
"https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/119854-hornresp-860.html#post5536539"
which pops to the last page (currently 633) because the 860 exceeds it.
After hunting that post number (5536539) down, correct link as of this instant:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/hornresp.119854/page-430#post-5536539
Swear it worked inside the last month but... See what you think. Sure seems to follow the "divide-by-two" guideline (thanks BTW!)
Thanks for all the work.
David's post #9250 in his Hornresp thread:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/hornresp.119854/page-463#post-5721038
Contains a a link back some pages within the same thread (you'll see it--it's all that's in there).
"https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/subwoofers/119854-hornresp-860.html#post5536539"
which pops to the last page (currently 633) because the 860 exceeds it.
After hunting that post number (5536539) down, correct link as of this instant:
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/hornresp.119854/page-430#post-5536539
Swear it worked inside the last month but... See what you think. Sure seems to follow the "divide-by-two" guideline (thanks BTW!)
Thanks for all the work.
I was just thinking all this myself. I used to see 10 posts per page and now I'm on 20 and so intoo employed the /2 thing. Not a setting I can personally alter as far as I am aware. Does the font size do anything to the thread count.?
I don't think so, no.
The erroneous display of link targets is when the link code contains "unfurl". which makes the forum show a preview of the link. As to why the preview shows the wrong post, we don't yet know. But perhaps is does have something to do with page count.
My Big Hammer: open the [ ]code, change "unfurl" to "no". (actually anything other than "unfurl".)