cherdano Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Not sure whether this is the best way to report this, but, anyway.forums.bridgebase.com used to be the url I use to access the forum. This now directs me to the BBO homepage instead. For a day or two I actually thought BBF was down because of this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovera Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 Not sure whether this is the best way to report this, but, anyway.forums.bridgebase.com used to be the url I use to access the forum. This now directs me to the BBO homepage instead. For a day or two I actually thought BBF was down because of this...Hallo, see also Lovera's last post in BBO Down ?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 See my post here: http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/70351-bbf-log-in-problem/page__view__findpost__p__839250 forums.bridgebase.com is not the appropriate URL, use www.bridgebase.com/forums Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 See my post here: http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/70351-bbf-log-in-problem/page__view__findpost__p__839250 forums.bridgebase.com is not the appropriate URL, use www.bridgebase.com/forums "Is very out of date" is a strange thing to say about an URL that was working 3 days ago.In any case, it would be trivial to change the server setup so that forum.bridgebase.com is an alias for www.bridgebase.com/forums, and it's a strange decision not to do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyck Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 The "Upcoming Broadcasts" in the windows client is another link that has stopped working, there are probably several others too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnu Posted March 19, 2015 Report Share Posted March 19, 2015 "Is very out of date" is a strange thing to say about an URL that was working 3 days ago. I'll 2nd Cherdano's observation since Forums.bridgebase.com was the URL I was using up to last week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mycroft Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 There is a term of art in the computer industry: "deprecated". That means "it still works, but we have a better (or at least an other) solution now that we want you to use. This is your warning: it will stop working at some time in the future without further warning." I remember discussions years ago effectively deprecating forums.bridgebase.com. I also know how useless marking something as deprecated is...because everybody reads it and says they'll get to it "soon", then forgets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 21, 2015 Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 "Is very out of date" is a strange thing to say about an URL that was working 3 days ago.In any case, it would be trivial to change the server setup so that forum.bridgebase.com is an alias for www.bridgebase.com/forums, and it's a strange decision not to do that.It wasn't a deliberate decision. We had an ISP failure earlier this week, and had to switch to a backup site. The backup site is not a perfect duplicate of the main site, and old aliases like this were not replicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 It wasn't a deliberate decision. We had an ISP failure earlier this week, and had to switch to a backup site. The backup site is not a perfect duplicate of the main site, and old aliases like this were not replicated.You are saying this as if this an irreversible consequence. It would take a competent webserver admin about 2 min to fix the configuration of the backup server! (It would typically become effective with the next restart of the webserver.) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/urlmapping.html Either it was a deliberate decision not to do anything about it, or it was incompetence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barmar Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 We're all at the NABC, dealing with the consequences of the failure in between sessions. The less critical issues will wait until we go home and can deal with them full time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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