What's happened to the "old" Galnet page?

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Heya @sallymorganmoore and @Paul_Crowther (and sorry for pinging you directly).

The new look Galnet looks great with nice pictures and formatting, However it misses something that was on the old page. namely a calendar and the ability to easily go back and look at older news stories.

We used to be able to directly go to: https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/636cd8a5560dc809331f12e0 (for example) and we'd see the story, but on the left hand side there was a calendar that could be used to change date, which also let us do lovely things such as https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/31-OCT-3308 to pick a date that Paul might approve of :) I believe that there was also an RSS feed although I've not personally used that for a while. The content is technically there, and we can still directly link to stories (i.e. https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/galnet/kingfisher-xeno-peace-mission) however, to see older stories, we need to repeatedly hit the next and previous buttons.

Rolling forward is there any way to give us the ability to (easily) jump to a specific date's news, and even better to be able to search the contents of Galnet so that one can say type in "Kingfisher" and get all stories about the Kingfisher

Many thanks Cmdr Eid LeWeise
 
All the old uid URLs are now broken. Fantastic.
At least when the forum was upgraded, it was possible to "fix" links to old threads by converting them to the new format. But any old links to galnet are just useless now.
 
All the old uid URLs are now broken. Fantastic.
At least when the forum was upgraded, it was possible to "fix" links to old threads by converting them to the new format. But any old links to galnet are just useless now.
It might just be that the old community server is down for some reason. Hopefully someone at Frontier knows.
 

Ozric

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It might just be that the old community server is down for some reason. Hopefully someone at Frontier knows.
I raised it with them early this morning, although Sally was aware last night. They are investigating and we'll have an update as soon as we know what's going on one way or another.

I'm going to close this thread just as there was one already open and it means I, or Sally, only have to update one place :)

EDIT It's been reverted. Info post incoming.
 

sallymorganmoore

Senior Community Manager : Elite Dangerous
Heya @sallymorganmoore and @Paul_Crowther (and sorry for pinging you directly).

The new look Galnet looks great with nice pictures and formatting, However it misses something that was on the old page. namely a calendar and the ability to easily go back and look at older news stories.

We used to be able to directly go to: https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/636cd8a5560dc809331f12e0 (for example) and we'd see the story, but on the left hand side there was a calendar that could be used to change date, which also let us do lovely things such as https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/31-OCT-3308 to pick a date that Paul might approve of :) I believe that there was also an RSS feed although I've not personally used that for a while. The content is technically there, and we can still directly link to stories (i.e. https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/galnet/kingfisher-xeno-peace-mission) however, to see older stories, we need to repeatedly hit the next and previous buttons.

Rolling forward is there any way to give us the ability to (easily) jump to a specific date's news, and even better to be able to search the contents of Galnet so that one can say type in "Kingfisher" and get all stories about the Kingfisher

Many thanks Cmdr Eid LeWeise
Hi all!

So firstly, our apologies for the confusion this has caused.
Secondly, after taking this feedback you'll now find the redirects dropped and all back to the usual service.
Bruce will post out some information on things a little later today for you :) Just wanted to jump in.
 
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