Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 awaken_D_M_golem Sep 10, 2013 13:08:16	It's been 7 hours and ~13 days, since you took you love to the web.archive.org ... aw aw-aw aw aw.   Whenever anyone figures out a Thread Address conversion, shout it.
#2 Tempest_Stormwind Sep 10, 2013 15:01:44	I found a few, but they're proving difficult due to the lack of a working forum search and different thread IDs. Most were some of my old showcases (I had a few that were edited and not backed up locally; I'll be moving them elsewhere), but the one handbook I found was the Mailman.   EDIT: Also, looking at the HTML across threads, it appears that SPAN tags no longer have their formatting (that's why there's a Paste command as well as a separate Paste From Word command; new Word uses SPAN for formatting when it's interpreted by rich-text editors like this one). This is important, because almost anything that was written with the last forum's rich-text editor was formatted using SPAN tags. This means that any handbook written during the 4e days would more or less be rendered unusable (and I feel bad for 4e CharOp). Some older forum code (from the Boards1 days or the Gleemax days) used basic HTML, so the older handbooks are probably not affected - but the older a thread gets, the harder it is to find using existing forum tools! (I found the Mailman by remembering it was written by DeAnno, and simply went back through his/her forum history until I saw the Mailman. This method would NOT work, for instance, if you're looking for the 3.5 Psionics FAQ, because I wrote that around 2005 or so and have been rather active since then!) (Interesting tidbit: This post was marked as "edited" before I edited it.)
#3 Tempest_Stormwind Sep 10, 2013 20:05:58	GOT IT! You CAN find what you're looking for with an advanced Google search. There's one way the threads were indexed that still works with the current change. All it takes is doing an advanced Google search, but limit it as follows. site:community.wizards.com/go/ KEYWORD The /go/ is important. For instance, the Mailman: if I do the following advanced search: site:community.wizards.com mailman The first hit takes me to community.wizards.com/forumhandler?t=1124745, which doesn't work. However, if I do THIS advanced search instead: site:community.wizards.com/go/ mailman I get http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19868534/ instead, which does work (or more specifically it redirects to http://community.wizards.com/forum/previous-editions-character-optimization/threads/1765181, the current location for that build. Hopefully the /go/ redirect (or the actual page location) will eventually become the standard as activity to the old /forumhandler pages dies off, preventing the need for this step, but in the meantime, at least all the information is accessible.
#4 StevenO Sep 10, 2013 20:55:15	Although it is probably pointless for some of use it seems that you can find your old threads under your account.  I'm just looking at mine and while I haven't started many threads they actually go back more than 7 years and cover things I don't think are anywhere else on this board.
#5 Slagger_the_Chuul Sep 11, 2013 5:22:17	StevenO wrote:
#6 awaken_D_M_golem Sep 11, 2013 14:41:32	Ah ha, good one TS.   It looks like some Links are being restored.  Some. But yeah, the new numbering format(s) are way different.