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What happened to the communityclassic.eveonline.com archive?
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Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#1 - 2014-08-07 02:32:54 UTC
After the rollout last year of the new website, a great many old news resources became either immensely difficult to find (due to old links being broken and no categorization or search function in the new list) or unavailable at all. It was later discovered, however, that changing the url on old links to 'communityclassic.eveonline.com' instead of 'community.eveonline.com' allowed for the access of resources from an archive version of the old website. This was immensely helpful.

Checking some of those links now shows that they've once again been broken, with communityclassic now redirecting to the new webpage.

Has the archived version of the old website been taken down, or just the redirect broken? Either case is bad as, frankly, the new website has been and remains awful for news due to the lack of categories, search functions, and the complete absence of most older fluff pieces (the ANN/Scope/etc news articles for each race).
Louella Dougans
Sovereign Hospitaller Order of Saint Katherine
#2 - 2014-08-07 17:24:23 UTC
do you have an example of a link that doesn't work ?

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Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#3 - 2014-08-07 17:28:25 UTC  |  Edited by: Samira Kernher
The entire list of links on PIE's wiki page, for example, which I updated a few months ago with communityclassic urls after the original links were all broken from the launch of the new website.
Odelya d'Hanguest
Order of St. Severian
#4 - 2014-08-07 18:12:22 UTC
This should be fixed asap.
Louella Dougans
Sovereign Hospitaller Order of Saint Katherine
#5 - 2014-08-07 18:23:09 UTC
Samira Kernher wrote:
The entire list of links on PIE's wiki page, for example, which I updated a few months ago with communityclassic urls after the original links were all broken from the launch of the new website.


okay:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/a-vigil-for-the-amarr-emperor-tonight/
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/vigil-for-the-good-health-of-the-emperor-great-success/

Are those the articles that should be in the first links ? labelled "vigil for Emperor Heideran VII part 1" and part 2 ?

Be a Space Nun, it is fun. \o/
Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#6 - 2014-08-07 18:30:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Samira Kernher
Yes, but if I wanted to locate the news articles on the current community webpage I would go looking for them myself. While some of them can be found (with difficulty, due to the lack of a search function), many more are not available through the current community webpage at all and could only be found on the communityclassic page.

For example, the Ardishapur education improvements and Kor-Azor scandal posted by ANN early last year, just before the new website launched. If you look on the current world news page for 2013, the "Kor-Azor Decision-Making Scandal Revealed in Audit of Late High Deacon's Records" article, which had originally been posted on February 26 on the ANN portal on the original community website, is not there. After the launch of the new website, that article became only available on the communityclassic site.

So, again, I'm not asking for replacement links. I'm asking, "What happened to the communityclassic archived website?"
Valerie Valate
Church of The Crimson Saviour
#7 - 2014-08-08 05:04:12 UTC
have you tried a petition ? if I remember right, there should be a category for website issues.

Doctor V. Valate, Professor of Archaeology at Kaztropolis Imperial University.
Mitara Newelle
Newelle Family
#8 - 2014-08-12 15:25:29 UTC
This really needs to be fixed, or a decent search function added to the new site. Having 10 years of documented history just disappear really kind of blows.

Lady Mitara Newelle of House Sarum, Holder of the Mekhios province of Damnidios Para'nashu, Champion of House Sarum, Sworn Upholder of the Faith, Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Admiral of Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Mitara Newelle
Newelle Family
#9 - 2014-08-12 15:26:31 UTC
Louella Dougans wrote:
Samira Kernher wrote:
The entire list of links on PIE's wiki page, for example, which I updated a few months ago with communityclassic urls after the original links were all broken from the launch of the new website.


okay:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/a-vigil-for-the-amarr-emperor-tonight/
http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/vigil-for-the-good-health-of-the-emperor-great-success/

Are those the articles that should be in the first links ? labelled "vigil for Emperor Heideran VII part 1" and part 2 ?


How did you find those, Louella?

Lady Mitara Newelle of House Sarum, Holder of the Mekhios province of Damnidios Para'nashu, Champion of House Sarum, Sworn Upholder of the Faith, Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Admiral of Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#10 - 2014-08-12 15:33:56 UTC
Those would be from the 2003 listing on the website:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/archive/2003/

As the vigil news was from the global category, rather than the racial news, it's locatable on the website. All the global news entries are recoverable, just entail sorting through multiple pages to find them. The big loss is the old racial news articles.
Mitara Newelle
Newelle Family
#11 - 2014-08-12 15:34:09 UTC
Ah, I guess we can browse through all the archived posts. Time consuming, but doable.

Lady Mitara Newelle of House Sarum, Holder of the Mekhios province of Damnidios Para'nashu, Champion of House Sarum, Sworn Upholder of the Faith, Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Admiral of Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Mitara Newelle
Newelle Family
#12 - 2014-08-12 15:34:58 UTC
Samira Kernher wrote:
Those would be from the 2003 listing on the website:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/archive/2003/

As the vigil news was from the global category, rather than the racial news, it's locatable on the website. All the global news entries are recoverable, just entail sorting through multiple pages to find them. The big loss is the old racial news articles.


Ah, I missed that piece of the puzzle.

Lady Mitara Newelle of House Sarum, Holder of the Mekhios province of Damnidios Para'nashu, Champion of House Sarum, Sworn Upholder of the Faith, Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Admiral of Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Mitara Newelle
Newelle Family
#13 - 2014-08-12 15:37:10 UTC
The feed for Amarr:IC - http://community.eveonline.com/feed/rdfnews.asp?tid=2 goes into a redirect loop :(

Lady Mitara Newelle of House Sarum, Holder of the Mekhios province of Damnidios Para'nashu, Champion of House Sarum, Sworn Upholder of the Faith, Divine Commodore of the 24th Imperial Crusade

Admiral of Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
Louella Dougans
Sovereign Hospitaller Order of Saint Katherine
#14 - 2014-08-12 16:53:55 UTC
Mitara Newelle wrote:
How did you find those, Louella?


by googling for the headline of the news article.

which ofc, only works if you know the headline, or can make a close enough guess.

Be a Space Nun, it is fun. \o/