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I finally found an example of a post that was broken with the previous forum change, from the intuit forums. In this post there is a link to a solution that no longer works because the forum URL structure changed at some point.
https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/bootstrap-quickbase-css-question
The bad link is this "https://quickbase-community.intuit.com/questions/994665" and the correct link now would be "https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/how-to-use-bootstrap-with-quickbase".
Luckily Dan left the title of the post there so it was easy enough to find with a search but that isn't usually the case.
I've just seen a lot of forums lose their old data when changes like that happen. The post is still there yes but it is more taunting than anything when the links are broken. I'm not even sure of how to avoid that but that is my main concern with a change like that.
https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/bootstrap-quickbase-css-question
The bad link is this "https://quickbase-community.intuit.com/questions/994665" and the correct link now would be "https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/how-to-use-bootstrap-with-quickbase".
Luckily Dan left the title of the post there so it was easy enough to find with a search but that isn't usually the case.
I've just seen a lot of forums lose their old data when changes like that happen. The post is still there yes but it is more taunting than anything when the links are broken. I'm not even sure of how to avoid that but that is my main concern with a change like that.