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Nihon Ki'in 'improves' website breaking all story links

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 12:19 am
by ez4u
On April 1st the Nihon Ki'in upgraded its website. At the same time it changed the structure of the site, breaking all our past links to stories about tournaments (at least).

Previously stories used to be in a date-based structure .../match/YYYY/MM/asdfgh.html
This has been changed to .../match_news/match_info/asdfgh.html
So far in my checking all the final documents seem to be unchanged and substituting 'match_news/match_info' for the original 'match/YYYY/MM' finds the original article.

Edit: At least some .../news/YYYY/MM/qwerty.html links have turned into .../event/events/qwerty.html links. However, some stories that were not about 'events' seem to have ended up in different categories. :sad:

Re: Nihon Ki'in 'improves' website breaking all story links

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:30 am
by DrStraw
Maybe April 1st is significant.

Re: Nihon Ki'in 'improves' website breaking all story links

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 4:34 am
by ez4u
DrStraw wrote:Maybe April 1st is significant.
Unfortunately it is due to the start of Japan's fiscal year rather than just an April Fools joke. :-|