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- Manlobbi
Personal Finance Topics / Retirement Investing
No. of Recommendations: 7
Suddenly I couldn't find this board any more. Evidently its url has changed. I've found it again with some sleuthing and I had
to log in all over again.
This is not good. I bet there are other people looking for the board and not finding it. It would be a really good idea
to redirect from the old url to the new one, at least for a while. Otherwise many of the former participants may be lost to us forever.
Elan
No. of Recommendations: 1
Absolutely redirect for a while. I only found my way back thanks to Elan's message on the old board.
Baltassar
No. of Recommendations: 2
Odd. Same URL for me.
www.shrewdm.com
loads the home page and
https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?pid=392728467loads the post to which I'm replying.
Using another browser without a history of the site, cookies, etc.
-R
No. of Recommendations: 3
What was posted on the old board--
https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?command=processPost --also leads to failure. Using just
https://www.shrewdm.com/MB gets me to the board. I have my bookmark defaulted to board's Login Form:
https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?command=displayLoginFor... . (It appears the command is too long for the board to display all of it. Everything after the "=" is "displayLoginForm" , without the quotes marks.) It appears that what's changed at that point is the "command" following the question mark: now (I don't recall the original) it's "command=displayLoginForm" (also without the quote marks).
No idea why that change, but often (usually? I'm no HTML programmer, but I have troubleshot some of my bookmarks) the basic address is all the stuff up to the first question mark, and all the stuff after the first question mark is what you've defaulted your bookmark to do first at that site, or it carries to the site the origin of your link click, like the email containing the link you just clicked on.
I've emailed Manlobbi about the changed URL.
Eric Hines
No. of Recommendations: 3
I'm not sure that the URL changed, it was my bookmark in my browser that changed. It changed to point to a digitalscores site and I got a warning about potential password theft.
RAM
No. of Recommendations: 4
The website address is simply www.shrewdm.com and has remained so for many months.There have been no changes made related to urls.
You can bookmark various other pages of course, such as the particular url when the login prompt appears (as Eric posted -
https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?command=displayLoginFor...) or the url when viewing a particular board such as
https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?bid=1118 or the url to create a new post there such as
https://www.shrewdm.com/MB?command=post&bid=1118 and so on.
To visit the board, just enter www.shrewdm.com. It will take you to the last board that you visited and in the same navigation position that you were last at.
Regarding bookmarking - yes, if you copy or bookmark the URL immediately after publishing a post, then visiting that URL will try to publish your post again and fail - that is good. So bookmark actions that you want to bookmark, such as visiting your favourite board, or ideally visit www.shrewdm.com and bookmark that.
- Manlobbi
No. of Recommendations: 7
There have been no changes made related to urls...
The only change that I have noticed:
In the very earliest days, the original link at digitalscores.com redirected to the Shrewd content before shrewdm.com was up and running.
Recently digitalscores.com has started failing its domain certificate test (I get the message "not valid", not expired), so anyone still relying on the redirection will get an error.
I imagine simply updating their bookmarks to be shrewdm.com rather than digitalscores.com should fix that particular problem.
Jim
No. of Recommendations: 0
My bookmark (in most recent version Firefox v 115) was, too, was changed to digitalscores (and came with a malware warning).
Just an FYI. Changed it back.
--sutton
No. of Recommendations: 5
Ah, thank you.. people still had links to the temporary digitalscores.com/MB url running in the few weeks. The surprises me given that any subsequent bookmark would be corrected. Indeed there is no SSL certificate for that digitalscores.com domain anymore.
It was okay to do a redirect for a while but it would have been better for me to later change that to display a page saying 'please update your bookmark to shrewdm.com' so people would observe their out of date url and not continue to use that temporary url.
- Manlobbi
No. of Recommendations: 19
To make sure there are no others with the old digitalscores.com/MB url unable to find the Shrewd'm boards, I have registered an SSL certificate for
https://www.digitalscores.com today and returned digitalscores.com/MB to forward to
https://www.shrewdm.com.
I will keep the forwarding (from digitalscores.com/MB) up and running for at a while, and later I'll also replace the forwarding with a message similar to "You are using the old temporary development url for Shrewd'm. To correct url Shrewd'm message boards is www.shrewdm.com. Please delete your out of date Shrewd'm bookmark or update it to use www.shrewdm.com."
In this way, eventually no-one will have bookmarks to digitalscores.com/MB (given that it will fail to forward, but will also inform everyone how to access the boards so they are not 'left in the dark'). I'll then take down digitalscores.com/MB (to be safe, much later on).
- Manlobbi
No. of Recommendations: 9
Thanks. It is very kind of you to create these boards for us.
