Quote: "I am also seeing this on chrome, I am trying to work out why it is happening"
In addition to this I am unable to download certain items on the forum...for example I downloaded the rar plugin for DBP on 26.12.17 - when I responded to a post seeking such a plugin so I know the download definitely worked, no edits, thread is locked for a long time! Now all I get is a new blank page and this is the case for a load of forum downloads, another example is BBB GUI or BBB Rendering, where the links for download have disappeared completely yet no edits have been made and the thread locked for years! Further to that if I click on the sig of the OP, which links to another forum page I am getting redirection page that says I am about to view an external site!!!!! There are some forum downloads not affected, for example the U7.7RC7 links works just fine...but then there is a different style to the link in as much as the ones that give me blank pages and don't work look like this:
https://forumfiles.thegamecreators.com/download/2091330
(this one is a link to a tutorial half way down 1st post of the Matrix1Util plugin thread - https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/85209)
Same post(M1Utils) details U7.0 and 7.1 for download, as well as VC redist files link are also producing a blank page(I won't copy it here just see for yourself) - yet the working one for U7.7RC7 looks like this:
https://forum.thegamecreators.com/outbound?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffiles.thegamecreators.com%2Fdarkbasicprofessional%2Fupgrade%2Fdbpro_upgrade_7_7_RC7.zip (https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/180294)
The jGfx render plugin link also works and looks like this:
https://forum.thegamecreators.com/attachment/80593 (https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/220206)
2 examples of things I downloaded at christmas, yet the links do not even exist in the original posts I got them from and no edits to posts as well as threads locked for a very long time are:
RAR plugin (https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/74124)
Advanced2D plugin (https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/179096)
Even the single most useful and highly important plugin for DBP(Matrix1Utils) is just as messed up(where would we even be without this??)...in this case the link is missing and redirects to the same page your supposed to be leaving, again with an external site warning via the sig even though the redirect is to the very same page!
I really hope for TGC that this is not an irreversible situation. I for one would be saying goodbye to TGC, you can have the best products in the world but they are next to worthless with issues as big as this. This is not the first time the site has had changes without prior warning and messed things up for many of us. I am still waiting for Dark Enhancement pack to show up in my order history as promised when you guys messed our accounts up due to (still) missing activation codes and older order systems etc, telling me it is available in FPSC is the shoddiest way to deal with it...where are the helpfiles for example or all the demos it came with? All this because I wanted a refund on DARKMatter years and years ago!!! My latest correspondence detailing I have to wait longer for the older order system to come online...heres a hint I don't believe what I am being told, not one word, this is just bad customer service, I do not believe you will correct the old order system, nothing like this takes years hahaha! So on one hand I have Rick telling me its in FPSC source, when I point out the obvious I then get passed back to a female of same surname as Rick telling me the old order system will be made to come in line with accounts - which I was told when you guys first made major changes to site way back! If the left doesn't know what the right is doing then that is a sad state of affairs!
Even trying to go back from various pages is not the only issue - I cannot even go forward the way I came now!!! I have even experienced a history of more than 10 clicks back for a single page!!!
I think we can agree changes have been made and they are not good ones given I do not see any improvement or changes elsewhere. The changes are recent ones. Downloads that seem to be mostly affected are older ones a lot of which are missing an actual link entirely and like I mentioned already no edits and threads locked for a long time...and I have downloaded several of them around christmas time - what have you done?!
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