After the 'upgrade outage' my link BioWare forum link just takes me to a the BioWare home more or less. From this forum if I click on the 'The BioWare Forum' link at the top it does the same thing. How are we supposed to dance around back and forth in their forums? Anyone else having issues?
So has BioWare screwed up their forums on purpose or by accident?
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Beerfish
, Apr 05 2016 05:28 PM
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 05:31 PM
Jesse Reid
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Can you explain that again? I'm not sure if I understand, the BioWare logo on the top left of the page always took you back to the root of the forum did it not?
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 05:47 PM
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Can you explain that again? I'm not sure if I understand, the BioWare logo on the top left of the page always took you back to the root of the forum did it not?
Near the top of the page is the thread links 'The BioWare Forum'...'Mass Effect'...'Mass Effect Andromeda'....'General discussion'
Previously if you clicked on the 'The BioWare forum' link it would take you to the base forums page showing all of the BioWare fourms, now it takes you to base BioWare page with no access to forums at all.
My saved bookmarked page via firefox used to take me to the base forums page now does the same thing, takes me to the base Bioware page.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:04 PM
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Just try it and it still work for me without problem.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:04 PM
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Takes me to the base board with forum access. It's not very likely that a simple link would be wiped out during maintenance time. That stuff isn't really MySQL based. They'd have to mess with the template files.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:05 PM
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Working as intended.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:06 PM
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............why would they do it on purpose...........
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:10 PM
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Well something has changed for me I'll guarantee you that.
My link boomkarked link takes me here: http://social.bioware.com/
I would then click on "The BioWare forum" large icon (the others being dragon age keep, N7 headquarters and bioware blog.' The BioWare forum click would take me to the list of all BioWare forms and I could then choose which forum to go to. Now instead it takes me here: http://www.bioware.com/en/
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:22 PM
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Almost sounds like a caching issue, at best. Although, caches are usually aesthetics.
I can't think of too many cases where browsers would get links confused.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:29 PM
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Just logged in and noticed the Off-Topic section was gone. What happened?
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:34 PM
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The mass effect 3 multiplayer forum no longer exists.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:41 PM
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The mass effect 3 multiplayer forum no longer exists.
It's there for me....
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:43 PM
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The mass effect mp forum is there for me but I have no idea how to back out of this forum to get to the dragon age forums.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:47 PM
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Ah okay, now I understand what you mean. It is likely your DNS doing that as we made a couple changes to it today. Depending on your DNS cache that should eventually go back to normal.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:51 PM
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Did the rules change regarding posting pictures? I tried and got a message that I lack authorization or some such.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:51 PM
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The mass effect mp forum is there for me but I have no idea how to back out of this forum to get to the dragon age forums.
Oh, poor Beerfish.
Everything works fine for me and I'm certanly can't adress any technocal aspect of your problem, but maybe this will help: http://forum.bioware.../9-dragon-age/ 
..or better straight here. 
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 06:59 PM
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I'll reboot the old computer and see what happens.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 07:12 PM
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This http://forum.bioware.com/forum/ used to take you to the overall forums page in which you could choose which forum to then go to. now it just gives you the following message : Sorry, we could not locate the page you are requesting to view. Please click here to return to the community index
However there is no working link in the click 'here' part.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 07:21 PM
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 07:57 PM
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Just logged in and saw the Off-Topic section was gone. What happened?
That's been gone for a while.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 08:46 PM
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Maybe you meant http://social.bioware.com/forum/?
When I clicked your link I get sent to here: http://www.bioware.com/en/ For some reason it does not pick up the ? in the link.
I just copied and pasted your link instead and it worked for me. Something did change but I can can manage now that I have been able to book mark the copied and pasted link.
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Posted 05 April 2016 - 09:34 PM
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Good old Beerfish, still being Beerfish.
