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I couldn't access my own thread so I started experimenting.

This is what the link originally looks like:

http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php?1246-Baldur-s-Gate-Enhanced-Edition-%28No-it-s-not-a-kickstarter-p%29

%28 and %29 are the brackets (they are actually displayed as brackets but when I pasted the link they turned to code). What I did was simply delete the bolded part (including the dash after "1246") and I could access the thread. That's it really.

Later I got a 404 when I tried posting in it and got around it with a similar workaround but then I noticed I had double posted so it appears that even if you get a 404 when posting the post still gets successfully...posted.

This isn't perfect obviously as it requires you to constantly make adjustments to links that don't work but maybe the info can be used to "fix the site" for good.

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Firefox (also tried Chrome). Neither worked.

The same workaround can be applied to other problematic thread like these:

http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php?1228-I-bought-the-game-more-than-1-year-ago...&goto=newpost

http://www.goldhawkinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php?597-Combat-GUI-Update-%28feedback-please%29

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I deleted my double post (forums generally don't allow regular members to do this so it never occurred to me to try) but I can't change the title. :(

When I try to save the edited title I get a 404 again and the change doesn't get memorized. When I try editing again, the new title is remembered in the title edit bar but the issue repeats itself. Can't save the changes and I don't know how to get around the 404 in this instance.

Edit: Oh wait, the thread title in the OP does get changed but the topic title (the one you see from the "outside") can't be edited. They are two different things apparently. Oh for Goddess' sake.

I did ask Sathra to remove the brackets from the "real" title so hopefully he'll be able to do so.

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