hot deals links not working

[bryanW1995]

many detonator dynamite links are going to limbo. I just posted a link myself here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2098192

I had to finally remove the http and www. from my link just to allow others to cut/paste it. I've seen it broken on several other fs/ft threads as well.

What's wrong? How do we fix it?

btw, the link in the OP is just going to a blank page. it's not a bad link, the deal is still in effect, I found the actual deal on my own and know that it's active.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Yeah. These borked detonator links aren't going to be making much money for the AT forums either when they're broken.

 

[allisolm]

I fixed that particular link. The detonator thing was putting in some percent signs which is currently a vB problem (see this thread).

They'll probably find a way to get fixed faster (or at least find a work around) if they know the referral links are borked.

 

[bryanW1995]

just saw a bunch more borked links in video card forums here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2099276

 

[allisolm]

just saw a bunch more borked links in video card forums here: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2099276

Fixed 'em.

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks.
But ther "character decoding"-problem is not only in links containing the "percent"-character. It is also a problem in the - admittedly very few - links which contain umlauts such as ä, ö and similar...