Scoop On Creating The Archive!

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   Hey Karen,

I PM'ed you on this, but just so everyone's up to speed on what the problem is with the links, here goes...

Any links collected (or referenced) before the
replatforming (a month ago or so) had a different naming convention in the URL. So, now,
for example, they all have a TID= (followed by whatever the ID # of the
thread is). Before the replatforming, they were all, I think, AMB%
(followed by a string of code and then the ID #). So, all of the links
that have that old AMB naming convention are now obsolete and will just
redirect people to the HairTalk main page, unfortunately. 

The Extensions 101 thread and the Bridget thread haven't been updated
since the replatforming,
so those ones will definitely include some of those old, obsolete
links,
as well as any threads created before the replatforming that
cross-reference other threads. Hopefully, all the ones I compiled the
other day include the new TID URLs and not the old AMB ones, but if
not, it's just a matter of finding them, and I'm sure I can figure it
out. I'm not sure exactly why the old URLs don't redirect the user to
the new URLs, but they definitely don't; the Webmaster might have an
idea though. The good news is, no content was lost; the bad news is,
it's impossible to use an old link to find it. It may just be a matter
of changing the URL (maybe the ID numbers remained the same, but the
webmaster would know best). This would apply to all areas of Hair Talk,
I think, not just the Extensions area.

I've been through most of these links in the past week, though, so if
you're looking for something specific, I'll probably have a good idea
of where it is--the FAQs section (hopefully) contains only updated
links and there's always the search tool, so one way or another, we'll
find it!

Ah, the joys of cyberspace!

:)