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Why arent moved threads indicated somehow?

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homercles337

Diamond Member
There seems to be a large number of threads being sent from OT to P&N, but there is no indication before clicking that it got moved. It seems like a waste of effort and bandwidth to NOT indicate this. Any reason why?
 
How would you indicate it. Place a dummy thread with a link to the moved thread?

When you refresh a page, if the thread is not there, then you can not click on it.

If you subcribed to a thread, you may get a notification.

Otherwise common sense will suffice.
 
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
How would you indicate it. Place a dummy thread with a link to the moved thread?
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That is how many other forum softwares handle it, such as phpBB. It tags the thread title with "MOVED: the title", which redirects to the real thread.

In this forum that would be helpful, since the URLs are category dependent. Other forums don't have a problem when threads are moved because the URL indicates a thread ID and nothing more.
 
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
I thought you get an E-Mail when your topic is moved
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When you are subscribed to a thread, it seems to happen.

 
Originally posted by: homercles337
... It seems like a waste of effort and bandwidth to NOT indicate this...
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It seems it would take more effort and bandwidth to do so.
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Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: homercles337
... It seems like a waste of effort and bandwidth to NOT indicate this...
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It seems it would take more effort and bandwidth to do so.
😕
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It takes less bandwidth to transmit the error than it would be to transmit a page containing the link info.

 
Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: homercles337
... It seems like a waste of effort and bandwidth to NOT indicate this...
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It seems it would take more effort and bandwidth to do so.
😕
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It takes less bandwidth to transmit the error than it would be to transmit a page containing the link info.
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Precisely. Wow, never thought i would agree with Eagle, but im glad that i do!

A while back i frequented a forum that did what im asking. This particualr forum had a DBZ (some weird from of anime games produced by atari/ina) area and OT was where all the political/high-brow stuff took place. When OT stuff in DBZ got moved it was clear that clicking that link was not going to result in anything meaningful. Since every click results in a DB query and subsequent sending of data, a notice that says "[moved from OT]: Bush makes a move." would save considerable bandwidth. Not to mention that it would be PROFOUDLY easy to impliment. Surely, the DB has a field for OT, P&N, SW, HW, etc. and if this is the case then asp/php/whatever could EASILY indate this with ONE line of code. A tiny amount of effort would dramatically drop DB queries and data bandwidth.

[edit] run-on sentence [/edit]
 
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