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Pre maintenance forum links no longer valid

questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I have noticed that pre-maintenance links to specific topics on the forum are no longer valid.
Can't say i enjoy having to fix a couple of dozen bookmarks again. Did that with the move to vanilla and compatibility between before and after maintenance of the26th/27th would have been nice.
This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,286 Arc User
    If it aint broken...PWE will break it :)

    I need the enhancement extension. This update has killed the forums for the 2nd time in less than 3 months. C'mon get your act straight PWE. :D
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  • rekurzionrekurzion Member Posts: 697 Arc User
    i noticed that too. plus i haven't found a consistent way to get to the forums. sometimes it works sometime it doesn't. most of time i'm presented with PWI's main forum with no way of getting to STO. searching is still horrid, still have to initiate a search before I can do an advanced search. still can't go directly to the last comment in a thread. hitting the back button sometimes doesn't reload the previous page and scrolling seems to sporadic.
  • architect13architect13 Member Posts: 1,076 Arc User
    Have you tried the forums on a mobile device? . . . one second it looks fine, then it looks like TRIBBLE . . . no rhyme or reason.
    Have you tried the new forum on your phone?
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    Something I'd like to know is if there is any more tinkering with the forum planned?

    While annoyed that i have to redo all my bookmarks (again) i would be royally infuriated if i finished the bookmarks and it'll get f- again next week.
    This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    Please note that the perfectworld.vanillaforums.com forums and the "new" arcgames forum (the ones you are reading right now) are not the same anymore. Right now we actually have two forums alongside each other, postings in this forum don't appear in the other.

    I'm afraid they'll force us to use these forums with the arc overlay sooner or later, but right now the situation is all sorts of fubar pig-32.gif​​
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  • tarastheslayertarastheslayer Member Posts: 1,541 Bug Hunter
    edited August 2015
    rekurzion wrote: »
    plus i haven't found a consistent way to get to the forums. sometimes it works sometime it doesn't. most of time i'm presented with PWI's main forum with no way of getting to STO.

    I've had this problem as well, though once I got on the forum it seems to be okay......
    questerius wrote: »
    Something I'd like to know is if there is any more tinkering with the forum planned?

    From what the message said, I got the understanding that they'll want to do it again:
    More importantly, this brings us steps closer to other forum features that we are looking to implement including a developer tracker to follow official posts from our team as well as custom themes that will adjust both the aesthetics and usability of the forums.
    That to me says it will happen again.

    We do know the dev tracker is already in development and has been for a while, though I guess the piece of string analogy is appropriate as far as how long it'll be before the next lot of work is due.

    Also, anyone else noticed we seem to have a limit of an hour to edit posts now?
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    angrytarg wrote: »
    Please note that the perfectworld.vanillaforums.com forums and the "new" arcgames forum (the ones you are reading right now) are not the same anymore. Right now we actually have two forums alongside each other, postings in this forum don't appear in the other.

    I'm afraid they'll force us to use these forums with the arc overlay sooner or later, but right now the situation is all sorts of fubar pig-32.gif​​

    Yeah, I saw that too. Seems to mean people with Adblock (or the forum extension?) are posting in a different instance than people who are not using either of those.

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  • antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    Also - edit doesn't seem to be working on these but is on the perfectworld for old posts.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    Due to restructuring of the forums yesterday....the links from Google are not going to the right place, either.
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  • captainmal3captainmal3 Member Posts: 436 Arc User
    So basically PWE screwed up. Is anyone at all surprised?
  • tarastheslayertarastheslayer Member Posts: 1,541 Bug Hunter
    captainmal3 wrote: »
    So basically PWE screwed up. Is anyone at all surprised?

    Not really no :P
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    The good old:
    sto-forum.perfectworld.com

    redirects you to an invalid page.
  • ilithynilithyn Member Posts: 903 Arc User
    And you have to log in just to see the forum. Really people?
    *sighs*
    I never thought I'd say this, but I'm seriously considering only using the STO reddit from here on.
    (No you can't 'haz my stuff'.)
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  • captainmal3captainmal3 Member Posts: 436 Arc User
    ilithyn wrote: »
    And you have to log in just to see the forum. Really people?
    *sighs*
    I never thought I'd say this, but I'm seriously considering only using the STO reddit from here on.
    (No you can't 'haz my stuff'.)

    You might as well. The community both here and there sucks, and the devs have already abandoned the forums in favour of reddit anyway so it's not like you'll be missing out on anything important. Quite the opposite in fact, you're more likely to miss important information by staying here.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    @lucho80 @ilithyn @gulberat and others:

    Thanks to @asterelle I found out that http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline will point you to the "new" ARC forum without the ARC overlay. You may need to login through arcgames first for it to work, but it should do the trick. The extension works with this forum as well.​​
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    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
    "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
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  • ilithynilithyn Member Posts: 903 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    angrytarg wrote: »
    @lucho80 @ilithyn @gulberat and others:

    Thanks to @asterelle I found out that http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline will point you to the "new" ARC forum without the ARC overlay. You may need to login through arcgames first for it to work, but it should do the trick. The extension works with this forum as well.​​

    Hallelujah it works. Thank you :D.


    captainmal3 wrote: »
    ilithyn wrote: »
    And you have to log in just to see the forum. Really people?
    *sighs*
    I never thought I'd say this, but I'm seriously considering only using the STO reddit from here on.
    (No you can't 'haz my stuff'.)

    You might as well. The community both here and there sucks, and the devs have already abandoned the forums in favour of reddit anyway so it's not like you'll be missing out on anything important. Quite the opposite in fact, you're more likely to miss important information by staying here.

    I like covering my bases, I'm my fleet's Practical Pig who keeps track of stuff that's coming up or going wrong in the game, so I often pop in here as well to check anything that isn't brought up on reddit.

    Edit: Okay you can edit stuff, but you need to go to the gearwheel in the top, right corner of your post and it has a 1h timer now. (Even gives you a count down O.o)
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    ilithyn wrote: »
    Hallelujah it works. Thank you :D.

    No problem pig-1.gif It would help if the word gets around somehow. We have effectively three URLs for the same threads with different content right now and part of the community is stuck in perfectworld.vanillaforums.com and makes their own thing, part is here missing posts and confused... it's a mess...
    I like covering my bases, I'm my fleet's Practical Pig (...)

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    "No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
    "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
    #TASforSTO
    Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
  • ilithynilithyn Member Posts: 903 Arc User
    angrytarg wrote: »
    ilithyn wrote: »
    Hallelujah it works. Thank you :D.

    No problem pig-1.gif It would help if the word gets around somehow. We have effectively three URLs for the same threads with different content right now and part of the community is stuck in perfectworld.vanillaforums.com and makes their own thing, part is here missing posts and confused... it's a mess...
    I like covering my bases, I'm my fleet's Practical Pig (...)

    Makes you instantly sympahetic *oinks* pig-2.gif​​

    Why thank you XD.

    I thought about putting this in the reddit thread about the forum moves and the mess up with PWE and Arc being simultaneously running but not - it was that thread that sent me hunting about for the arc/non-PWE version - but it's already been edited with the info about the non-arc overlay (i.e. this place). I think I'll make a thread about it in the STO PWE forum though.
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
    angrytarg wrote: »
    ilithyn wrote: »
    Hallelujah it works. Thank you :D.

    No problem pig-1.gif It would help if the word gets around somehow. We have effectively three URLs for the same threads with different content right now and part of the community is stuck in perfectworld.vanillaforums.com and makes their own thing, part is here missing posts and confused... it's a mess...
    I like covering my bases, I'm my fleet's Practical Pig (...)

    Makes you instantly sympahetic *oinks* pig-2.gif

    Tone it down for those pig emotes please, getting hungry for bacon.​​
    This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
  • somebobsomebob Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    captainmal3 wrote: »
    So basically PWE screwed up. Is anyone at all surprised?
    Sadly, not in the slightest.

    PWE screwed up yet YET again. Just...so amazing how they screwed up this time around.​​
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    Don't you know, PWE makes thing's "better" by making them "worse"!
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    questerius wrote: »
    Tone it down for those pig emotes please, getting hungry for bacon.

    You wouldn't be the first one to chase after my bacon pig-26.gif​​
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    ^ Memory Alpha.org is not canon. It's a open wiki with arbitrary rules. Only what can be cited from an episode is. ^
    "No. Men do not roar. Women roar. Then they hurl heavy objects... and claw at you." -Worf, son of Mogh
    "A filthy, mangy beast, but in its bony breast beat the heart of a warrior" - "faithful" (...) "but ever-ready to follow the call of the wild." - Martok, about a Targ
    "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" - Robert Justman, appreciating Emmy-Lou
    #TASforSTO
    Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
  • potasssiumpotasssium Member Posts: 1,226 Arc User
    I want to say I get the best experience with the Forum on a medium sized Tablet 7-8 inch. My phone is too small, and my computer needs to be running ARC to keep me logged in, which is obnoxious as a steam used.

    I'm perfectly satisfied with the Tablet experience, but at the same time is at least for me the method that involves the least friction or irritation.
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    angrytarg wrote: »
    @lucho80 @ilithyn @gulberat and others:

    Thanks to @asterelle I found out that http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline will point you to the "new" ARC forum without the ARC overlay. You may need to login through arcgames first for it to work, but it should do the trick. The extension works with this forum as well.​​

    Great catch guys, thanks!

    If it hasn't been turned off already, PWE may need to consider turning off the old instance of the forum (WITH a redirect message telling people how to get to the correct page) so that anyone unaware they are posting in an outdated version of the forum will check and find the current instance.

    Failing that--has anyone already notified the other instance that they are posting to an old version? Or do we still need to do that? (I am at work and can't view the old instance the way our computers are set up.)

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  • somebobsomebob Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    gulberat wrote: »
    Failing that--has anyone already notified the other instance that they are posting to an old version? Or do we still need to do that? (I am at work and can't view the old instance the way our computers are set up.)
    I was able to get to the old site...somehow (I can't repeat it either) but I posted over in a thread over on CO telling people that they were in a non-existing version of the forums.

    Also, CM LaughingTrendy over on Reddit has noticed the issue:
    "It appears as though we had a mirror version of the forums.

    ...I'm actually serious. I'm working to consolidate everything with Vanilla.

    EDIT:: I have labeled the old forums as the Goatee Forums."
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  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,505 Arc User
    Goatee forum huh,
    I wonder if the final version will be Riker's beard.​​
    This program, though reasonably normal at times, seems to have a strong affinity to classes belonging to the Cat 2.0 program. Questerius 2.7 will break down on occasion, resulting in garbage and nonsense messages whenever it occurs. Usually a hard reboot or pulling the plug solves the problem when that happens.
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    I am confused....which URL are we supposed to use now?
    Should I wait on updating any Forum links?

    Does anyone have a working replacement link to "Search" and "Drafts"?
    Used to be :

    http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums#/drafts
    http://perfectworld.vanillaforums.com/search?Search=

    (I know they look different "on paper" but they used to work just fine for navigation. )

    (P.S...I agree with a previous poster about moving over to Reddit....if all the information I need wasn't over here in old posts)
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  • zobovorzobovor Member Posts: 198 Arc User
    Ugh ... , I have a black text on white background now .
    Is this the next new thing?
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