Old intra-site comment links do not link to comments anymore

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Intra-site comment links from before the early 2017 site conversion do not link to comments anymore. Example: click the link in comment https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/care-to-join-a-win7-snooping-test/#post-21388.

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I have no problem clicking on the brown-colored-texts links found in poohsticks’s comment/reply#21386 and MrBrian’s comment/reply#21389, and then being redirected to the proper website pages. I am using Firefox on Linux.

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When you, for example, visit https://www.askwoody.com/2016/the-case-for-not-updating-windows-7-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-108526, you see a specific comment?

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That link takes you to the topic, not a specific comment. The nesting for older topics was lost in the conversion from the old site. Perhaps that is responsible for the problem.

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I think it’s even more subtle.

This link:

https://www.askwoody.com/2016/the-case-for-not-updating-windows-7-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-108526

is for the pre-Lounge commenting system, which no longer exists. If you want to link to a specific reply in the Lounge, the link looks more like this:

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/the-case-for-not-updating-windows-7-ever/#post-21700

Links you’ve stored away from the pre-Lounge era don’t work any more. You need to get a new link in the new format.

BTW, the new format is better, IMHO, because comments aren’t tied to specific pages (e.g., /comment-page-2/#comment-108526). That makes it easier to move the replies without breaking links.

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I should add one more note, at the risk of confusing everybody.

Links that were on the old site when the Lounge conversion took place were all updated correctly.

The mis-direction is only a problem with links that you saved on your computer – or possibly links from other sites (such as the Microsoft Answers forum). Links contained inside AskWoody should continue to work properly.

That’s one of the joys of adding the Lounge. Sorry….

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click the link in comment

Here’s that link:  https://www.askwoody.com/2016/the-case-for-not-updating-windows-7-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-108526

There are two things wrong with that link that is *embedded* in the comment itself.

https://www.askwoody.com/2016/the-case-for-not-updating-windows-7-ever/comment-page-2/#comment-108526

The number, 108526, is the comment number from the *old* AskWoody Blog.  I never looked before, but now that I see this discussion, it’s apparent that the transition from that old Blog to the new Lounge, all the comment numbers were updated to the *new* AskWoody Lounge numbering system.

But, there was no attempt to scan all the old comments for embedded links that referred to other comments in the old Blog, and to link the new numbers to those old numbers–I suspect that would have been a programming *nightmare* (?)–don’t know!  But, also maybe just wasn’t planned for, and it is what it is.

But that comment # does not exist:  https://www.askwoody.com/forums/reply/108526/

And whatever that number was in reference to, is no longer in existence–the comment is there, but we don’t know which one used to have that old number–gone forever!

The other problem, -page-2, is the Old Blog link designation for when the series of comments reached a certain number, and the Blog software would create a new page to continue the comments, but now on a second page. The new Lounge software currently is not set up to create a second, or third, or fourth page (depending on how many posts are being made), it just has a longer and longer single page with more and more Replies on one page.

So, again that link reference goes no where that is specific any longer.

What the Lounge software does, is it defaults to the lowest level of the comment system that it recognizes in the link–in this case it’s the old topic:  https://www.askwoody.com/2016/the-case-for-not-updating-windows-7-ever/ . You’re on your own from there.

So, if you have a list of links from the old AskWoody Blog–they will all fail in the new Lounge as far as directing you to a specific Comment (now referred to as Replies).

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