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Friday, March 27, 2009

Introducing Numberless URLs

For quite some time now, ProBoards forum URLs have included your server number in the domain name (e.g. your-forum.proboards40.com). We are happy to announce that all forums have been seamlessly upgraded to numberless URLs.

When accessing your forum through it's normal URL you will be automatically redirected to your-forum.proboards.com. All redirects are seamless and will direct you to the correct page you were attempting to access at the old URL.

Forums which use custom domains are not affected by this change.

posted by Patrick Clinger at 2:12 AM

22 Comments:

  • Allow me to be the first one to say... COOL!!! This is a great addition, but I think I've noticed it awhile ago, when I've typed my forum's address without the numbers.

    I'm looking forward to see more updates at Proboards. You're doing a great job, so keep it up! :)

    By Blogger Robert, At March 27, 2009 10:54 AM  

  • This is GREAT! Now it will be so much easier to find old forums again. :D

    By Blogger Ida, At March 28, 2009 9:12 AM  

  • I've noticed this for a while now & initially I thought that there were some hackers on the loose using the ProBoards.com domain.

    I'm happy for this because people always forget the URL to my board when I tell them. They end up emailing me or google it. So I'm officially happy about this.

    By Blogger KyToy, At March 29, 2009 8:19 AM  

  • Great Addition Pat! ;D

    Hope you guys phase out WWW. in the urls too (in the sme way).

    By Blogger Son Of Exodia, At March 29, 2009 11:34 AM  

  • Great news. Hope any quirks have been worked out since I plan to change our redirect URL to the numberless URL now :)
    Thanks Proboards. Best forum service ever.

    By Blogger darklife, At March 29, 2009 12:24 PM  

  • This is really great! Thanks for removing that. It was annoying, honestly. xD

    To Robert: I noticed it, too, but now it actually redirects when the number is in the url. It didn't do that before.

    By Blogger Kirei, At March 30, 2009 10:25 AM  

  • =] This is great! It helps me remember my old sites, since all the numbers got confusing after a while. And now that I've added a comment number two, I'm happy to say that proboards just keeps getting better! I love you guys!

    By OpenID kraziixkarii, At April 1, 2009 11:23 AM  

  • This rocks! I have had a few proboards sites for numorous reasons and now I wont have to get rid of an old one because of forgetting the numbers! THANK YOU PROBOARDS!!!

    By Blogger Rob, At April 1, 2009 5:44 PM  

  • Yes, this is a very good thing. I love it. You rock.

    By OpenID sistrobe, At April 3, 2009 5:08 PM  

  • AMAZING!

    Thank you very much. It doesn't sound like much, but this change in the URL makes our forum links VERY Professional.

    Keep up the great work guys. I'll continue referring friends to use your website for any of their forums.

    By OpenID Yurek, At April 10, 2009 11:56 AM  

  • Proboards is great, and easy to use.
    I'm a great fan of darkliferadio.proboards.com
    The free radio forum has been a big help for us and saves us allot of time not having to build a board.
    Making the URL easy to remember helps everyone; including the advertisers who support the free boards.


    Steve
    www.radiobrandy.com
    Keep Up The Great Work!

    By Blogger Radio Brandy, At April 13, 2009 3:21 PM  

  • This is amazing, I love it!

    By OpenID ravyn-crescent, At April 14, 2009 5:46 PM  

  • I LOVE THIS!! Thank you so, so, so, so much!

    By OpenID ravyn-crescent, At April 14, 2009 5:47 PM  

  • This is a great idea. Just signed up.

    Will post comments as I go along.

    Cheers

    Garret
    http://twitter-stuffed.proboards.com

    By Blogger Garret, At April 15, 2009 1:38 PM  

  • This is good but it has its down side. For instance, at school I used to be able to access my proboards site, however now I can't because the school has blocked all sites with '.proboards.com'. I used to be able to get around this because of the numbers in the url - ahwell, such is life. Apart from this, it is helpful.

    By Blogger Sam, At April 20, 2009 5:52 PM  

  • That's great I'm glad because I would always forget the number in front of my url. I can't wait to see what else Pro board has in store.

    By OpenID mzbubblez213, At April 26, 2009 6:52 PM  

  • Two words - PROBOARDS ROCKS & RULES!!!! (Okay so that was three) :)

    By Blogger Against The Storm, At April 28, 2009 10:03 PM  

  • I fully enjoy this! I've been attempting for a while to find some of my older sites to revamp them since I now have the time for them and now I can find them! Thank you!

    In response to Son of Exodia: www. is rarely needed when typing any URL. There are very few sites whom require it to direct you to the right location. I haven't typed in www. in 2 years now.

    By Blogger Catherine, At May 16, 2009 9:11 PM  

  • This is a fantastic addition Patrick, thank you ProBoards.

    By Blogger Kim, At May 18, 2009 5:10 PM  

  • thats not bad and is a GREAT news to all members keep the good job pro boards.

    By Blogger together as one, At May 28, 2009 3:55 PM  

  • this is AWESOME.

    By Blogger Tigertail, At July 9, 2009 7:30 PM  

  • I really like this upgrade. It is much easier to maintain more forums than it was with numbered URLs, since you would have to remember both the name and the number of each of your forums. Now all you have to do is remember the names! Or just bookmark them, =D

    Thanks for doing this, Proboards!

    By Blogger kahlia_selicia, At September 12, 2009 9:21 AM  

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