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Vanshilar
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Is there a way to access the old forum?
Jun 13th, 2013 at 5:03am
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Just wondering if the old DDO forum is still accessible. Thought there might have been a thread about it but don't know if I'm just misremembering things. Was trying to use the search function on the new forums, but it's missing a lot of stuff that it should have found (is it really that hard to write a function that searches for a text string in a database?), so I want to see if I can use the search on the old forums instead.
  
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Re: Is there a way to access the old forum?
Reply #1 - Jun 13th, 2013 at 10:07am
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Vanshilar wrote on Jun 13th, 2013 at 5:03am:
Just wondering if the old DDO forum is still accessible. Thought there might have been a thread about it but don't know if I'm just misremembering things. Was trying to use the search function on the new forums, but it's missing a lot of stuff that it should have found (is it really that hard to write a function that searches for a text string in a database?), so I want to see if I can use the search on the old forums instead.


Use google search? "site:forums.ddo.com" searches the old forum interface and all the old pages should still be cached. Or "site:ddo.com/forums" for the new forum interface which has the same old threads.

The server with the old forum software got taken down a couple weeks after the new forum software went live. That's why people with the IP manually entered in their hostfiles were suddenly unable to resolve ddo.com.
  
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Re: Is there a way to access the old forum?
Reply #2 - Jun 13th, 2013 at 10:29am
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First, you need to find a DeLorean.  Second, a Flux Capacitor. . .
  
            
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Re: Is there a way to access the old forum?
Reply #3 - Jun 13th, 2013 at 8:19pm
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There are archives of old forums posts available.  I've found them via googling before, but I can't tell you how to find them other than to google better.
  
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Re: Is there a way to access the old forum?
Reply #4 - Jun 13th, 2013 at 10:53pm
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Simple solution: just exchange the word "en" in the old URL for "forums".

Edit: I mean, after a google search, that is.
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