A question to forum admins

[bored]

Is it possible to make old forum URLs of the form "/thread<number>.html" redirect to new URLs? Sometimes when you dig an old thread it links to another thread and there is no way to follow the link.

[wendigo100]

And while you're about it, why does my "go to next unread post in this thread" now reset itself to 1 every day?

[Stan]

I've just been bit by this, I'd bookmarked a thread with some useful information but now I go back and it isn't there. Is there any way to find the topic given its old URL?

[bored]

I've just been bit by this, I'd bookmarked a thread with some useful information but now I go back and it isn't there. Is there any way to find the topic given its old URL?

You can try Google cache, but if Google has already found the new URL to the same thread then it will delete the old one from the cache.

There is always the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/.