Finding your link on a forum...

[Laura@FYP]

When I get site hits from links in various forum topics, if I simply copy and paste the full URL it never takes me to the post- I always just get an eror message. So sometimes I will try and search on the given forum to try and find what the topic in which I was linked to was, but dont always find it...

Is there a trick Im missing with regards to the URL's that I need to in order to be taken directly to the post...

Does that even make any sense whatsoever!?! :laugh:

[MrTempleDene]

Is the error message telling you that part of the forum is private? or is it a 404 not found type message?

[Laura@FYP]

Its always a 404 error message. No matter what forum and what topic. I just copy and paste the url....there must be something I need to change in them though to make it work...

[Chell]

Can you not just click the link instead? Sometimes the link is displayed in a shortened form so you can't copy and paste, you need to right click then copy link location rather than copying using the edit menu in your toolbar.

[Spacekids]

I've had this problem too. There was one forum I had a link from that I couldn't find the link when I searched so I tried to join the forum so I could search for it. I got a message saying that my account was awaiting activation, but then didn't hear anything else, and that was weeks ago! I mustn't be good enough for them!!