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The old wai forums don't work anymore ?
Is there a way to see them ?
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Whaaa! :shock:
Indeed...

Also, all the links in old posts linking to old threads in this forum dont work anymore,
due to the change from acneboard.com.
Can we please have that fixed??
Otherwise many of these posts have become worthless. :(

And if thats not possible, can we please change it back to acneboard.com??
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Relax, breathe deeply, the old fora are accessible again. ;)
I think panacea is working on some kind of script to adjust the links, right?
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phew.... Image
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Re: Old wai forums

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Whoops, sorry forgot about this little problem hah!

I'll have a fix ready within 24 hours
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;D

That'd be awesome, panacea. :)
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just an update, I found a solution but it's not a very clean one, which involves making manual SQL commands and backing up the forum data just to be safe and a bunch of stuff I can't do because of not having website privileges, Oscar would have to follow the instructions and I don't know if he's comfortable with making SQL commands, so I'm searching for a simpler solution still.

For now there's another manual fix anyone can do in case anyone desperately needs to make one of those old links work, instead of clicking on it and letting it take you to an error/blank page, you can simply go back and copy and paste the bold area at the end of the link starting with viewtopic, like this:

[b]viewtopic.php?t=2212&postdays=0&post ... er&start=0[/b]

and paste it after the bold area in your URL address bar while browsing the waiworld.com forums, overwriting anything after the waiworld.com/waitalk/phpBB3/ like this:

[b]viewtopic.php?t=2212&postdays=0&post ... er&start=0[/b]

You can also copy the exact opposite portions, and overwrite accordingly (the blue link parts instead of bold), whichever you find easier.

BTW Oscar, how comfortable are you in phpMyAdmin?
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Hang on, let me talk to RRM. ;)
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Thank you for your efforts Image, Panacea!
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Huh now I'm confused lol
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Oscar hasnt contacted you?
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Yep yep, it's in the works ;)
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Okay, I did the update. As far as I can see it worked and the forum didn't explode or something! :D
104 links were adjusted in almost 0.4 secs ;)
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Wow, im impressed,
and very happy! Image
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Re: Old wai forums

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Great job Oscar ;)
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