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The redirect from http://whathifi.com to the correct http://www.whathifi.com appears to be broken...

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RE: About the new site

Both of your links take me to the WHF home page if that helps.

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RE: About the new site

It's the first one that's the problem, but I have a non-cacheing browser: what happens if you do Ctrl-R (presuming you use FF)?

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RE: About the new site

John Duncan wrote:

It's the first one that's the problem, but I have a non-cacheing browser: what happens if you do Ctrl-R (presuming you use FF)?

 

first link takes me to http://www.whathifi.com/ do a ctrl r and it stays the same. in FF.

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RE: About the new site

Think it's been fixed...

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RE: About the new site

now they have gone and changed the "active topics" to "latest posts" time to update those book marks....

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RE: About the new site

nads wrote:
now they have gone and changed the "active topics" to "latest posts" time to update those book marks....

Huh?

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RE: About the new site

Andrew Everard wrote:

nads wrote:
now they have gone and changed the "active topics" to "latest posts" time to update those book marks....

Huh?

 

if you wanted to see the latest posts over the whole forum you can use a button on the main page of the forum.

 

this used to be

http://community.whathifi.com/forums/TopicsActive.aspx

but this morning it no longer works. as it is now

http://www.whathifi.com/forum/latest-posts

 

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RE: About the new site

Both the URLs you give work fine, and get you to the same page...

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RE: About the new site

Nope, the root domain (http://whathifi.com) has stopped working for me again.  Tell Gareth!  Tell Gareth!

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RE: About the new site

nads wrote:

this used to be

http://community.whathifi.com/forums/TopicsActive.aspx

but this morning it no longer works. as it is now

http://www.whathifi.com/forum/latest-posts

...and has been since the site was migrated months ago...

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RE: About the new site

the former as a (bookmark) worked fine uptill today. so something changed. as my bookmarks did not.

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RE: About the new site

Yes, and I suspect there is something amiss with the old server, which has been redirecting to the new one since then, and appears to be failing to do so now (at least intermittently).

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RE: About the new site

It's fixed.  That'll be twenny guineas...

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