Links like these: [image] Open Source Robot For the whole story on ROBOTC multi-tasking, see the series of posts in the ROBOTC programming tips thread, specifically posts 23 through 30 Post 23 Post 25 Post 28 Post 29 Post 30 are broken, I can sometimes remove &postcount (or other suffix?…

When answering questions with references to the old threads I always make links to the specific posts and reuse existing image attachments from the old threads. Unfortunately, as the forum went through several software packages over the years, the format of the links to the individual posts and att…

Discourse does support underlined text, by wrapping the text in question in the [u] and [/u] BBCode tags. But this is a bit clunky, and unfortunately, markdown-style syntax for underlined text (like * and ** for italic and bold text, respectively) is not currently supported. See this meta-forum thre…

I’ll fix the links. We usually do as we find ones that are broken. In the mean time, they were fixed in this topic a couple of weeks ago. [image] Discussion on using tasks in ROBOTC Technical Discussion It’s time for another one of my long posts, this time discussing RO…

[image] jpearman: as we find So, current process is? 1) report deadlinks here? 2) PM/DM someone (you)? 3) wait til …? I can most often find what I’m looking for here, but I’m thinking of those who haven’t that much time, attention span, or previous experience to find a search, or even ask th…

There is no formal procedure. If I link an old thread and there are broken links or misplaced attachments, then I fix if possible. The links (sometimes) are broken because of the two forum migration processes we have been through. We can close old threads to stop necroposting. We can also delete…

[image] jpearman: We can close old threads to stop necroposting. We can also delete the last post and then reset the bump date so the thread does not show as recently accessed. I would like to see Discourse’s auto-close feature used, so necroposting is automatically made not possible. Perhaps…

@DRow ??? [image] Barin: Perhaps 30 days since the last post Are there any reasons counter to this? If not, who makes the change? Can there be a (somewhat more) formal process to relink/repair old links (and clean up old threads Could a process be formed to have these older …

[image] rhowbot: Are there any reasons counter to this? If not, who makes the change? It would be made by Admins. I personally wouldn’t support it, we have had several threads over the years that benefited from ongoing posts, some threads lasted several years with gaps of a few months. Perh…

[image] jpearman: several threads over the years that benefited from ongoing posts what I thought. [image] jpearman: fixing broken links by anyone other than the original poster is often hard, even fixing links and attachments correctly in threads I made from several years ago takes some…

Can old links be fixed?

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jpearman April 22, 2019, 1:53am 3

I’ll fix the links. We usually do as we find ones that are broken. In the mean time, they were fixed in this topic a couple of weeks ago.