Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
A fair while ago now, I noticed that there were two different tags which the many pieces of the Cricket Web forum can be branched from:
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/
and
http://forum.cricketweb.net/
For ages, I heard no other comments on this matter. But now I've started to note that different people have different defaults. And it's caused one or two confusions in the last few days to several people. I presume it never changes that the link on the main page (the "cricket forum" button on the top row) is the former. So I guess some people just access the forums from a different way that I do - for instance, if you follow a link from a "discuss this news item in the forums" at the bottom of an article (like this one) you get directed to the latter, and I know why this is, it's because the link is inserted that way when you post the articles up.
Now if you're logged-in under your standard and not the other, this means you have to log-in whenever someone whose standard is the other posts a link to something (other than when you just want to view a post, rather than reply to one, or view an attachment, or view a profile, or - as I found-out the other day - view a "hidden" forum of thread).
This is no massive deal, but it can be a bit annoying from time to time. Wouldn't it be better to standardise the link from all sources? Obviously, James is away until the 26th and I presume he's the only one who'd be able to do this. But it's something worth looking-at I think.
http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/
and
http://forum.cricketweb.net/
For ages, I heard no other comments on this matter. But now I've started to note that different people have different defaults. And it's caused one or two confusions in the last few days to several people. I presume it never changes that the link on the main page (the "cricket forum" button on the top row) is the former. So I guess some people just access the forums from a different way that I do - for instance, if you follow a link from a "discuss this news item in the forums" at the bottom of an article (like this one) you get directed to the latter, and I know why this is, it's because the link is inserted that way when you post the articles up.
Now if you're logged-in under your standard and not the other, this means you have to log-in whenever someone whose standard is the other posts a link to something (other than when you just want to view a post, rather than reply to one, or view an attachment, or view a profile, or - as I found-out the other day - view a "hidden" forum of thread).
This is no massive deal, but it can be a bit annoying from time to time. Wouldn't it be better to standardise the link from all sources? Obviously, James is away until the 26th and I presume he's the only one who'd be able to do this. But it's something worth looking-at I think.
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