h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Traveller in Time browsing some sites
"Well, the Personal Forums are visible in the skin and site of the viewer.
The threads on other forums switch more persistent to the originating site.
I guess it is a feature, now just how do I find out who replied to what posting? "

This is a deliberate feature, which addresses the large amount of confusion that users found when trying to leave messages for users on their personal space when users were members of different sites. It's effectively a fix to a long-standing bug. Message Centres and Journals now no longer switch the skin to the site they belong to, although they do switch internally for moderation purposes.

All other forums will switch to the site they belong to, as they always have done.

Traveller in Time losing some information
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Traveller in Time on a thread (trying to ignore the forum base)
"I was trying to point to the Thread behaviour not the Forum behaviour.

Few days ago the next link would have shown this thread in the HUB skin
< <./>/dna/hub/T551910</.> > now it shows the HooToo site.

This behaviour _has_ changed in the recent days. "

Difficult to see how the behaviour has changed in the last few days, since we haven't made any code changes since the upgrade over a week ago. The behaviour will change depending on the URL, but given identical URLs the behaviour will be entirely predictable and will not have changed since the upgrade.

Traveller in Time trying to find a recent use of the site shifting Thread link
"Hmm, all I have done since the upgrade was switching sites for personal areas. So it will indeed have been the upgrade to disable this option.

I used one xtra to get the researcher numbers and on GetWriting and Collective to see who replied to what posting.

The times I used it in postings was to introduce others to the Hub (Downtime Reports). For what I have seen most were able to get used to the content of the thread and were not really confused by the change of site on following any thread related link (next, prev, reply).

It used to be an interesting 'tool', only very limited in functionality. "

Ah. I finally understand what you're talking about. There was a bug which meant requests for threads directly with no forum ID didn't switch skins. This was indeed fixed in the upgrade as it was a bug. you might also have noticed that the 'This is the conversation forum for' information was also missing from such pages. Now it finds the correct forum if the ID is missing, and is able to choose the correct skin.

Traveller in Time even in cuneiform cryptic
"Yes, so I interpreted your answer in the second posting right even while it was an answer to another question.

Just how many users would use the Thread only as a link? It was an informative though rather innocent 'bug'.

Will the RSS/XML feed be as informative as all skins/sites together? "

"Just how many users would use the Thread only as a link?"

You did it regularly on forums, as I recall, as do several other users. Having 'broken' links on the site bothers me so I fixed it.

RSS feeds will likely have less information than a regular HTML page, and there's unlikely to be an RSS feed of a page of forum posts. An XML feed would have all the information, though - it's only the XSLT which is filtered.