@manton I'd like to get back to blogging. I want to link back to other things I posted before Oct 26, 2018. But when I try to get URL's for those older postings, I get a Not Found message. Ditto for two other bloggers here. You said you would look into it. ETA for a fix?
@Ron Hi Ron. I just took a quick look via your archive and tested a few posts that load. Is this the right site or are you talking about a different site?
@simonwoods In a Chrome browser on a PC, click on Posts at the top of a micro.blog window. There appears an archive of my posts (no replies). Normally right click on the date/time stamp for any one, select "Open link in new tab" and you can see the posting in all it's glory. The URL at the top of the posting is what you use in the markdown to link to it in a new posting. BUT in my archive, if I go back before 26 Oct 2018 and do the same thing, it does NOT open the posting. The browser window is blank, except for the words Not Found. There IS an URL up above, but if you copy and paste it to a new tab and hit enter, you get the same blank browser window and the words Not Found.
When I told Manton about it, I don't think he believed there was a problem. But then two other people read our mail and told him they had the same problem! So then he said he'd have to look into it. That was many weeks ago and I haven't heard a word since then and I still can't link to any of those previous postings in the new postings I want to write, 'cause I can't get an URL that would work. He did assure me that those old guys had not been deleted. But what good are they, if I can't link to them? Linking is the core feature of the web, right?
@Ron Could you give me an example of a URL that doesn't work? Perhaps one of the ones you are looking to use?
@simonwoods If you check my Archive directly, make sure you select postings dated before 26 Oct 2018. Postings more recent than that date work fine. So you have to page down a few pages to get to the bad ones.
@Ron @simonwoods so this is indeed curious. If I go to that entry on your public archive it links to this URL that works: www.ronchester.org/dont-be-a... it leaves out the date info. Not sure why the internal “posts” page is inserting it (or maybe why the public archive leaves it out since I think the date formatting is standard for Micto.blog) but that url works.
@DrOct @simonwoods Okay, the other side of that coin is that the more recent postings DO have the date in their URL and they work! Thanks for spotting the difference. Maybe Manton would be able to finally fix this. @manton
@DrOct @Ron Yep, Stephen nailed it. Every post available via the public archive should work fine but the internal archive in the Posts tab of your settings is broken in the way you have reported, Ron.
For now, the workaround is to use the public archive to get your links. You can still search in your internal archive and then match the post to the public archive. Hopefully you'll only need to do this for the short term.
I'm gonna tag @manton just in case but I'll also log this on GitHub.
@simonwoods @DrOct Okay, I found it by following the link in your comment. I had never seen that version before! I notice that from that archive you get the date on the more recent postings and no date on the earlier postings. So apparently Manton changed how he was formatting things around late October 2017. How would I find the archive like this for any given person on micro.blog?
@Ron Every hosted Micro.blog site -- like yours and mine -- has it by default. Just add /archive to the URL of the site.
If it doesn't work then it is likely the person either removed the page or changed the URL for it; fortunately, the convention is to keep the link of your archive visible, as it is on our sites. For example, yours is at the top of your site, above your posts, whilst mine is at the bottom of my site, below my posts.
@simonwoods Okay, great! Now what I learned in using technology in the past is that if I found something I wasn't doing right, or I didn't know about, I would go to the section about that in the user manual and re-read that whole section, as it's possible there are other things around there that I didn't properly understand, So I would look for those other areas of misunderstanding or non-understanding, so that I got a full conceptual understanding of the area and would not mess up again.
Where would I go to read the user manual about this subject?
And thanks so much for your help!!!
@Simonwoods Hi Simon, When you tell Manton about this, please remind him that two others had the same problem: @Cheri for sure and I think @Klandwehr was the other. I couldn't find the original thread, but maybe Manton saved it, as he promised to look into the problem. Thanks!!