Descriptive Problem Summary:
Since I'm awesome, I like to stroll around the site using the ?hub format for example;
http://www.byond.com/games/?hub=63736
Numbered Steps to Reproduce Problem:
1. enter http://www.byond.com/games/?hub=xxx into your address
2. replace xxx with numbers
3. click on any of the tabs other then overview
4. facepalm because it failed
Expected Results:
For it to appear like on the regular site.
Actual Results:
It shows the BYOND website instead of the comments and such.
Does the problem occur:
Every time? Or how often? All the time.
In other user accounts? Yes.
On other computers? Yes.
When does the problem NOT occur?
When you're not cool and us the normal http://byond.com/games/author/hubname format
Did the problem NOT occur in any earlier versions? If so, what was the last version that worked? It worked before the recent site update where everything was redesigned.
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 Mar 12 2011, 1:53 pm
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Mar 12 2011, 5:56 pm
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Flame Sage
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Issue also occurs on Chrome 10.0.648.133 beta.
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Issue also occurs on Internet Explorer 9.
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Issue also occurs on Firefox 3.6.15.
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Issue also occurs on Firefox 4 RC
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Issue also occurs on Ubuntu 10.04 running Firefox 3.6.15.
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Issue also occurs on Safari OSX Snow Leopard.
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Issue also occurs on Android phone running standard browser.
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Issue also occurs on Windows XP (32) running Internet Explorer 6.
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We don't really need followup comments for every single browser this happens on, particularly when it's readily apparent this is a navigation issue and nothing caused by the browser itself. At the very least I would advise just keeping the browser followups in one comment instead of eight.
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I found a work around, which you could apply to the website.
Currently, when you click on the tabs, "#tabs=xxxx" is appended to the address bar; so it looks like http://www.byond.com/games/?hub=63736#tab=pics; or in the case of the regular format: http://www.byond.com/games/supersaiyanx/dbrp#tab=picks how ever, if you use http://www.byond.com/games/?hub=63736&tab=pics to navigate to the screenshots tab, it works perfectly, on both websites. so using the & instead of the # on both of them would solve the issue and keep some consistency or something. | |
The # is in use because of the tabs being loaded by AJAX. The issue is popping up because it doesn't have a proper base URL.
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So, is this like, the lowest priority issue ever since very few people know about hub IDs?
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Well really, you shouldn't be using this format for navigation. It isn't intended to be used except in rare circumstances. I do plan to fix it, but not with the method you described because that would ruin the AJAX.
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You mean circumstances where hubs have no name such as;
http://byond.com/games/?hub=570 http://byond.com/games/?hub=45552 http://byond.com/games/?hub=725 http://byond.com/games/?hub=730 Where they lack names, and otherwise, it's impossible to get to them. Or where 2+ hubs have the same name? Cause...there's alot of those. | |
Generally our goal is to phase out the broken hubs. The new site avoids allowing two different hubs to have the same path.
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