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Re: Subthemes for Star Wars renamed?
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lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:45:24 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> writes:

> > I imagine that this change broke quite a few Hyperlinks...
> 
> Nah, only if someone had links to the old canned theme-search queries, which
> looked frighteningly dubious and not very link-friendly before:
> 
>    http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+I%7D
>    http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+IV%7D
>    http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+V%7D
>    http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,%7BEpisode+VI%7D
> 
> A side-effect of getting rid of the {}'s is that the new URLs for those DB
> queries are slightly more human-friendly:
> 
>    http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,Episode+I
>    http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?theme=LEGO,SYSTEM,Star+Wars,Classic
> 
> although I wouldn't say they're link-friendly just yet (more on that in a
> couple days).
> 
> If someone had bookmarks on the old queries, I apologize for any inconveninece
> caused by the renaming of the subcategories.

Nope, no bookmarks, I was creating the links in my perl script
(hey, doesn't everyone have a sets-to-html-script? ;-) ), so the
human-friendly part was a little lost on me ;-)


Regards,
Hakan

> 
> --Todd

--
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature"



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  Re: Subthemes for Star Wars renamed?
 
(...) No, the changes weren't announced. It's just one of many everyday cleanup or maintenance efforts in the set DB. (I'm even surprised anyone noticed. :) LEGO officially uses the term "Classic" for the original SW trilogy (Episodes IV-VI, that (...) (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.database, lugnet.starwars)

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