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    New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    We've installed an update that produces wordy URLs for each page rather than random numbers. You do NOT need to do anything differently. Old links will continue to work. This is mainly a cosmetic modification.

    For example, the News and Aircraft Visitors forum now appears as
    instead ofand individual thread URLs will look like

    rather thanWe have tested this, but please let us know if you see anything weird in terms of site operation.

    Thanks!
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    SEO FTW...

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    The "LGA Daily Report" thread fails with a 404 error, probably because of the "smart quote" apostrophe. The URL looks like this: http://nycaviation.com/forum/lga-dai...-t9863s135.php

    (The fact that the apostrophe ends up as %CA%B9 means it's a two-byte Unicode character and not a regular ' character.)
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    Also, the "Mark forums read" link on the main forum page doesn't work; it just links back to the main page without actually doing anything.
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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    Upcoming trips link doesnt work:

    your-upcoming-trips,-biz-or-fun-t4835s405.php

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    From the "there's a new post" e-mail notification, the provided link in that e-mail:
    http://nycaviation.com/forum/viewtop...=93407&e=93407

    doesn't work. It redirects to:
    http://nycaviation.com/forum/new-for...p=93407#p93407

    which is a 404 error. Changing the ampersand to a question mark works but the behind-the-scenes rewriting should probably take care of adding a ? before any query string.
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    Apologies for the problems. I have located fixes for all of them. Will start fixing now.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    ewr thread as well

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    I have fixed all the bugs reported above. The only one I couldn't test was the email notifications. Anyone want to give it a go? Thanks!
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    Just tried it now (the jump to latest post link) and it's working now.
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    Thanks very much for your help, everyone.
    Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
    All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
    I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    If only A.net could fix stuff as fast as you do. Thanks!
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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    Im having problems trying to look on Spotting maps and the Calenders as well, it keeps saying error 404 TTP
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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    Quote Originally Posted by Delta777LR
    Im having problems trying to look on Spotting maps and the Calenders as well, it keeps saying error 404 TTP
    That's a separate issue. Looking into that now.
    Email me anytime at [email protected].

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    Re: New Forum Feature: Descriptive URLs

    Quote Originally Posted by Delta777LR
    Im having problems trying to look on Spotting maps and the Calenders as well, it keeps saying error 404 TTP
    That problem has now been fixed.
    Email me anytime at [email protected].

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