Mini Tut: How to find old threads on the Forums

ExcessiveZero

this is a work around until its fixed thought just to throw it up there  I haven't seen it anywhere else and figured it might help.

Now when you google an old topic or come across an old link on the forumit will provide you with a link that takes you to the main index of the forums, but what you can do is take the numbers that appear in the URL for example:

http://polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=144838

then paste it after this

http://polycount.com/discussion/

like this

http://polycount.com/discussion/144838

There you go you now have the thread you were looking for

Jean-Pascal

Thanks for sharing!

PolyHertz

I'm using the Javascript solution posted by Nelios in the Update thread (highlight and drag/drop the code onto your browser toolbar, then click the button anytime you go to a non-working link): http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=CB5X3mbC

TomGT

Oh man. Thanks for sharing! Finally I can lookup stuff on Polycount again.

Titus

OMFG  i should rebuilt half of mine pinterests 

Marvix

This is great fault and google indexed links will be probably lost soon forever.
To keep links working is No.1 priority when making changes to any website.

Nelios

In addition to the javascript bookmarklet Polyhertz talked about, I made a tampermonkey/greasemonkey script which basically does the same thing as the bookmarklet except that it's automatic. You click on a link, it loads the page then the script takes the thread id and redirects you to the working link. Both the bookmarklet and the userscript work with old threads as well as old posts (http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1424523&postcount=8591 becomes http://polycount.com/discussion/comment/1424523/#Comment_1424523). Old articles remain broken though (http://www.polycount.com/2012/11/20/the-environment-art-of-halo-4/ for example).

JustMeSR

Thanks for sharing. 

beefaroni

The script is great, but hopefully it is fixed permanently at some point. There are tons of times where I'm just searching google for a random issue I'm having, and one of the links happens to be Polycount. 

Also threads which link to other threads.

xChris

Sweet, this is super useful , thanks!

adam

*It's fixed.