TECHNICAL: Changes to forum thread naming?

[chanman]

I noticed that threads now have the name of their subject instead of a topic number. How long will old links stay valid for? At what point will something like

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,769.0.html cease to work?

I'm assuming the thread name doesn't change even if the subject is later modified.

[Knightmare]

Pretty urls are visually appealing and easier for humans to utilize elsewhere, but have no effect on how links work.

Click your posted link. Did it work?  O0

If you do happen to run into a non-functional link, let me know. I'd appreciate it.

Regards,

KM

[chanman]

Pretty urls are visually appealing and easier for humans to utilize elsewhere, but have no effect on how links work.

Click your posted link. Did it work?  O0

If you do happen to run into a non-functional link, let me know. I'd appreciate it.

Regards,

KM

Do the links change if the thread poster changes their thread title? I think I've seen a couple cases of this breaking links in the Fan Articles directory

[Knightmare]

I haven't seen any broken links in the crawl data, but I can run some extra maintenance...