Operating System: Windows 7. Default Browser: Google Chrome, Latest Update Back-up Browser: Internet Explorer 7, likely not latest update I’d opened a few tabs, fiddled around with preferences on one, used the forums on another, and left a message on a user’s talk page in another. When I closed out of two of them, I tried to access the forums and it redirected me to the site. I added “/discussions” to the end of the forums web address, and it merely tried to find a wikiHow article entitled “Discussion”. I attempted to duplicate it in IE7 and the forums worked as normal. I reloaded my Chrome browser and the bug is no longer present. Could my browser have picked up “forums” in a similar manner to “www”, or something to that effect? Was there a glitch in the site’s engineering? I’ve heard that there are a few tests on it right now.
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^ It did that to me as well, but I guess I never gave it too much attention as that was the only time. It was *probably* Google Chrome or Safari, but possibly Firefox.
I really don’t know.
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This sounds like a very unique, one-off situation. You *were* able to access the forums, right? I don’t fully understand what happened here, either. Can you make this happen again? If so, can you give me steps to replicate the issue?
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^ I’m not sure how it was for ISMKW, but for me it’d just bring me to www.wikihow.com/forums
which isn’t a page, as you know. Eventually I got it to work though, and if it happens again I’ll grab the exact steps for ya.
For that short period of time, no. All attempts to access the forums in that particular browser session instead took me to the regular wikiHow domain. Unfortunately, I have been unable to replicate the scenario. If I ever see it again, I will attempt to provide more detailed information.
Personally, it seems to me that the forums were temporarily taken offline for maintenance or upgrades or other purposes. A lot of sites with forums redirect the subdomain to the main one when the forums are taken offline to fix.
