HTTP Re-Direct

imTrace

URL/HTTP Forwarding (Changing Location)

Notice each subforum has a randomly generated URL.

It looks a little something like this:

/forumdisplay.php?f=7 (Announcements)
/forumdisplay.php?f=10 (Barracks)
/forumdisplay.php?f=51 (Off-Topic)

All I recommend is actually forwarding the URLs to a more simple address.. For say, announcements could lead to: [noparse]http://z8games.com/announcements[/noparse]. Same for Barracks, Off-Topic, etc. Would be easier to remember.

For those of you that say this thread doesn't belong here:

Falloutt

or you can just go to the main forum page and use your mouse, awful suggestion

imTrace

Falloutt wrote: »

or you can just go to the main forum page and use your mouse, awful suggestion

You fail to amaze me, I did suppose I'd see something related to that from you. Doesn't matter, I've practically mastered how Z8 does their HTTP (I say that, but it's all done for them... Lazy Canadians, just like Bawb).

Bawbs

imTrace wrote: »

You fail to amaze me, I did suppose I'd see something related to that from you. Doesn't matter, I've practically mastered how Z8 does their HTTP (I say that, but it's all done for them... Lazy Canadians, just like Bawb).

Why you hating on Canadians :C

Anyways, +1. Forums would be easier to use.

Exiledking63

some day soon.

imTrace

Exiledking63 wrote: »

some day soon.

.... This feature hasn't even been considered by Z8, I promise you.

[dot]

for no benefit at all, far as i can tell



HTTP is as simple a language as it gets to master, so no real props there.
urls to new subsections are assigned by php code though, and its not "z8games" code.

imTrace

[MOD]dot wrote: »

for no benefit at all, far as i can tell



HTTP is as simple a language as it gets to master, so no real props there.
urls to new subsections are assigned by php code though, and its not "z8games" code.

I know it's not Z8's code, don't know why I said that (Bear with me... It's been a long day)

As far as the benefit - It's minor, but only takes a bit to do, and would be much faster, rather than clicking through a bunch of sub-topics.

CFShu

True, very true. It would be much more organized.

Falloutt

imTrace wrote: »

You fail to amaze me, I did suppose I'd see something related to that from you. Doesn't matter, I've practically mastered how Z8 does their HTTP (I say that, but it's all done for them... Lazy Canadians, just like Bawb).

you talk about laziness yet you are the person who doesn't want to use their mouse to click on a sub forum, HAHAHA just an awful response from an awful individual,

facepalm

corkin

This feature is normally built into all decent forum software including vBulletin. The main reason (that I know of) that many administrators choose not to make the urls human-readable is maintenance. The main issue with it is name collisions. How many subforums would there be called announcements, suggestions, or off topic? The answer is more than one. You can make the names longer or add parent directories into the url to fix that problem but at this point the benefits are mostly gone. Lastly, name changes happen sometimes and it is just one more thing to do when you want to change it again.

[dot]

sorry i'm seeing no benefit from this at all


you want to be able to type H T T P : / / F O R U M . Z 8 G A M E S . C O M / BARRACKS
instead of clicking "barracks" on the forum main?

why don't you just favorite the barracks section and type "bar" in the address field when you want to go there?

imTrace

[MOD]dot wrote: »

sorry i'm seeing no benefit from this at all


you want to be able to type H T T P : / / F O R U M . Z 8 G A M E S . C O M / BARRACKS
instead of clicking "barracks" on the forum main?

why don't you just favorite the barracks section and type "bar" in the address field when you want to go there?

The power of stopping automatic-parsing with [noparse][noparse][/noparse][/noparse]
Anyways, why not, there may be no benefit, but there's no downside.

[dot]

imTrace wrote: »

The power of stopping automatic-parsing with [noparse][noparse][/noparse][/noparse]
Anyways, why not, there may be no benefit, but there's no downside.

time wasted.

(also spacing was intentional to highlight to extra effort that for some reason would result in less effort.
your coding prowess is very impressive though.)

its_matt

imTrace wrote: »

Hey look, it's me!

I've noticed that other forums, when a thread is created, it takes on the thread title's name, so it'd be /forum/this-is-th...-chicken#34342/. I'm not sure how or why this Forum is different, but I don't find it to be a problem, or an organizational issue. As long as I know that http://forum.z8games.com leads to the Forums, then it's acceptable to me.

caek

i don't think it's even possible with vbulletin.