QUESTION for DiC - are you altering the URLs of discussions?

mike stone 16/09/17 Dignity Champions forum

Is DiC changing the web-links for some of its discussion pieces? Over recent days I've found some of my stored urls [which I save to point at my earlier pieces in new papers] no longer seem to work - I've also had web searches 'going nowhere' when the article can be found by scrolling through the discussion pages themselves.

I'm not 100% sure about this - I've not had the time to properly check it out - but is DiC aware of anything it has been doing at its end, which might be changing the URLs of discussion pieces?

Regards, Mike

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mike stone 22/09/17

For some reason, you have altered the URLs to discussion pieces - the discussions are unaltered, but their web-links have changed.

For example, one of my pieces was when originally posted found at:

http://www.dignityincare.org.uk/Discuss_and_debate/Discussion_forum/?obj=viewThread&threadID=741&forumID=45

That now returns a 'page not found' message.

The piece is now at:

https://www.dignityincare.org.uk/Discuss-and-debate/Dignity-Champions-forum/This-is-why-professionals-struggle-with-the-Mental-Capacity-Act/741/

The consequence of this, is to seriously mess-up any online or other pieces, which referenced DiC discussions by means of their URLs.

Dignity in Care Technical support 22/09/17

Hi Mike,

A recent update to the forum caused your links to stop working.
This has been amended. Your old forum links should now redirect to the new urls correctly.

mike stone 23/09/17

Thanks - great news as it stops making most of my PDFs and online pieces 'make me look pretty silly'!

I've tried the URL above - which does indeed work - and I'll check other URLs out over the next few days.

Thanks for fixing this, Mike.