New Forum Link

[Steve Clarke]

Hi,

I have spent the last 3 days trying to access the Forum via my Internet Explorer Link, and thinking it was down, (all I got was a cached text version). I also tried via the Support page on the TurboFloorPlan web site with the same result.

Today my link still didn't work, but the Support page did! - why? - because forum.turbofloorplan.com has become forums.turbofloorplan.com ! Nice of IMSI to tell us!

(Of course until you find this out, you won't be able to read this anyway, so I posted to the old FloorPlan Forum as well in case people look there - also as the Link there now does not work either)

[Allan Chesney]

Why change the URL anyway or, if it had to be, why not at least provide a redirection?

Allan

[Steve Clarke]

Hi Allan,

It also means that any Hyperlinks you have added in previous posts no longer work, as they still point to forum.turbofloorplan.com. For instance your post Re: Question on Trial - which should link to this post Re: Woodshop Tools Catalog which contains more links that won't work any more!

IMSI need to do a global find/replace in the Forum database if that's possible.

(Links to pictures, attachments are OK)

[Allan Chesney]

Good point Steve, I had not thought about the links. I will have to see if I can get them to re-name it back to what it was - it should be possible.

Same thing happened to the Envisioneer forum one time also. Poor planning in both cases!

Allan

[rgathje]

  I lost it for several days and today I went to Floor Plan 11 forum and luckly they had a link. It nice to be back. I was having withdrawal pains from the fear that I would miss something.

[Steve Clarke]

It's a good job I added that post then!

'They', i.e. IMSI, haven't updated their link on the FloorPlan Forum - it still points to forum.turbofloorplan.

I notice the News at the top of this Forum now says "Welcome back, we just upgraded our forum software." - that is if people find it!

[Kajvin - Robert W]

It is rather funny that they haven't change the forum link on the site, on Thursday 23 April I phone the support on IMSI and tell them that the forum-link not working, they come back rater quick with the new address so they is aware of the trouble with the link. What I can see they have 2 they can do 1. Change back to the old link.  2: Redirect the page the new address and change the link on the homepage

[Steve Clarke]

They have now redirected forum.turbofloorplan.com to forums.turbofloorplan.com   

But any Hyperlinks in previous posts to other posts just redirect to the homepage instead  

And checking the Source of the page shows the Smiley Icons in Post Reply are still pointing to forum.turbofloorplan.com - hence all the red crosses    ,
although they are actually at http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/Themes/default/images/post/smiley.gif    (As can be seen from the 'var icon_urls' lines)