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deokkentdeokkent Member Posts: 5,439 Arc User
I don't mean to cause alarm, if any, nothing major for your to skip a heartbeat lol.

Anyways, I am information digging and I am having a hard time with this new vanilla forum. Links on reddit and bookmarks are currently broken. Are there any tricks someone has come up with to retrieve these pages. I know they are hidden somewhere on this forum, I simply can't find them.

Let's say you have this old link?
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=861451
Do you know of any method to figure out what the new link is? Even telling me how to get the thread title will be immensely helpful.

Thanks!

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  • primar13primar13 Member Posts: 1,896 Bug Hunter
    Try the Advanced Search Function!

    Hit the Down arrow, in the chat box, and plug in as much info you can remember about the post, Title, Author, so forth.
    Its been a few weeks, so the search function has gotten better at finding things, since it has had more time to "Crawl" the DB, or so it seems to me.


    http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/search
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,454 Arc User
    When a website's search function fails me, I often find that Google searches get me what I need.

    By the way, exactly what are you looking for? Asking for help in getting information and then not specifying the info you need? Hmm...
    "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
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  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,454 Arc User
    OK, I might have found one of your missing links.

    I copied the link URL and searched for it with Google. This gave me the cached page title (which seems to be correct, since both the STO forum link and the Reddit link are about damage...), which I then searched for with the forum search function.

    http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1149163/anyone-have-list-of-what-uses-base-damage

    Wash, rinse, repeat.
    "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
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  • enkemenenkemen Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    This works fine on everything I've tried it on: Take the full old URL. Drop it in Google. Copy the title of the first result that shows up. Paste it into the search bar. Voila.
  • berginsbergins Member Posts: 3,454 Arc User
    Yeah, using the trick I described, the STO forum links in the reddit post you linked all had returns of topics that even made sense for the reddit topic, so it seems to work...

    Anyone have list of what uses base % damage?
    Diminishing returns on tac consoles
    Phaser enhanced threat scaling engineering consoles please

    Perhaps if you explained what it is you are looking for? So far, you've been decidedly... unhelpful... in a thread that you requested help in.
    "Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell BAD." - Spock
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