Talk:Links to the DDO Forum

As most people will be aware SSG changed some of their DDO URI structures recently. The DDO Forums used to have the URL: www.ddo.com/forums that has now essentially changed to: www.forums.ddo.com. Therefore any old hard-coded absolute links using the older [.../forums] in the DDO Wiki pointing to certain forum threads will possibly now fail to reach their destination. Similar will occur with links to ddo.com.

For example, visit: Update_53 if you try clicking up the "Official U53.0.0 release notes on DDO.com" textual link it goes to a dead-end.

Also if you view: Smash and Burn and the quote from FlimsyFirewood, it of course will no longer link to Flimsy's profile/username. In that case it's not using a absolute "hard-coded" link for the thread; so the thread part will still correctly redirect.

&rArr; Dywypi (Contribs • Message • Email ) 05:22, April 18, 2022 (EDT)
 * I have updated Template:Forum_user, Template:Release_notes to use the new path. &rArr; Cru121 (Contribs • Message • Email ) 07:01, April 18, 2022 (EDT)


 * The Wiki changes seem to have worked regarding the username value, e.g. Flimsy's ID, i.e. 696944. That actually uses a template.


 * However, the Wiki itself is using the incorrect outdated URI. For example within that Smash and Burn page the (template generated) quote: www.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6209741#post6209741, gets "auto redirected" on the DDO server itself to: www.forums.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6209741#post6209741. That of course isn't the end of the world.


 * But, nonetheless any hard-coded absolute links in other places (not using: [Template XYZ]) leading to (ddo.com) will still be (mostly) pointing to the wrong places, and those won't actually redirect... with the exception of course with "Release notes".


 * What I'm basically saying is anything that is both: absolute and "hard-coded" (none template generated) pointing to the DDO domain and a specific page or forum thread isn't guaranteed to work - likely it will fail.


 * For example within: Best way to post a guide from the forum the link to ToEE forum thread will of course no longer go nor redirect to that [458546] thread itself. The actual thread is obviously now: http://forums.ddo.com/forums/showthread.php/458546. I've just now used a absolute hard-coded link, which I've used advised against to illustrate LOL.


 * Maybe a Regular expression for changing actual FUNCTIONAL hyperlinks containing occurrences of: "ddo.forums.com" to "forums.ddo.com" could be deployed. Or would it risk the outcome: "The Wiki vanishes in a puff of logic.", i.e might unwittingly break something else.

&rArr; Dywypi (Contribs • Message • Email ) 08:28, April 18, 2022 (EDT)

Do I understand this correctly?
 * - actually there's quite a lot of work here. Template only works for main releases. Plus some releases have the link hardcoded. Plus odd stuff at ddo.com end, such as 3 pages of U51 release notes.
 * - works as is; could be eventually changed to skip the redirection at ddo.com
 * - some links stopped working.
 * - some links stopped working.

I don't know how to use bots, but this link says there are around 70 such links. Many are on obscure talk pages noone cares about. I guess some of these could be manually updated to use T:Forums or T:Forum user. &rArr; Cru121 (Contribs • Message • Email ) 11:56, April 18, 2022 (EDT)


 * Hm, this search pattern shows quite a few more pages. --Cru121
 * Hm, and this has thousand hits; I guess we do need a bot for the job. --Cru121