http://amazon.com/dp/B00006EXLQ

worked.
Why not using that? or

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006EXLQ

, if you prefer no redir.

~mo

could someone do a bugs.mb.org search / their own memory search and make a post on which bugs if any are on this subject?. Perhaps a new bug, which links to them *all* could be made. I dunno :D

Here are the tickets:
* http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/628
* http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/1826

could someone do a bugs.mb.org search / their own memory search and make a post on which bugs if any are on this subject?. Perhaps a new bug, which links to them *all* could be made. I dunno :D

~mo

thats will not be possible, since there is no interface to edit URLs.

surely it can be fixed with a simple DB script? i could easily code it with MUMPS pattern matching, not that that's any use :)

again I can't see where anyone has said that you should be doing it, you've made it crystally clear that you don't feel like it, and you don't need to clarify that you don't feel like hacking on it. we get the picture without the snarkyness.

afaik ruaok has been hacking on the server quite some bit, although the server releases are slower without you, they wont stop, mb server existed (albeit with much less functionality :) before you started hacking on it too you know ;)

~ mo
obviously not 'people' =)-

it looks like people don't care what format the ASINs entered by people are, as long as they work on the server. we both want the data to be nicely formatted, which is due to our personal tastes, and possibly a bit anal-rententive'ness.

Since the GreatDebate, which devastated me more than i first admitted, i can't scrape together any motivation to start working on the server again, which is due to personal differnces with rob, and this won't change in the forseable future. The last 4 months, there was little to no progress on the mb_server, and this is what i'm curious about, it that'll change, or if that will be the way things are.

I don't care particularly, if the new javascript code was pushed live, but if you do, you'll have to ask rob to do it. Anything still unclear? And please stop to apologize for anything i might take personally, i'm not a wallflower, and am IMHO well capable of communicating with people -- thanks.

but I don't see where in my post I said *you* should do it. if that is what you thought I meant, I apologise, it was not.
I am also unclear on what it is you mean you do not "need" and what you "don't" (don't what? need? :s) and why you'll be curious about it. (curious about don't not needing the asin-code thing? uh?)

sadly I do *not* "know who to ask", partly because because this tread is old and I didn't re-read it, partly because my memory and me make dreadfull company and partly because I do not understand if you are trying to be innuendoius or not (probably not)

please be more clear in your posts keschte, so people with social communication problems can understand you :)

also *please* don't take my reply the wrong way. it was not intended contentious in any way.

The things i've seen until now are not really breathtaking, but you know who to ask, to get this resolved. (after all, the patch was commited a while ago already, and other fixes have been made available on the main server too since the last server release)

keschte

should we not then come down hard on the 'new' style urls in this time of transience before any coding is done? how else are we going to fix these 'new asin urls' later on? remove and resubmit them? (I don't have a problem with that myself, but it seems wasteful.)
because everyday I see new ASINs with this form, the only difference is that now I can't  vote 'no' on them.

it will construct a amazon.com/gp/product/<asin> url from the one you paste in the input field, just as the old mechanism used to cut off the extra stuff. the server-side code does not have to be adjusted, it already works.

wh00t!

this is very good news! but I want to repeat my question: what about old already added links?
will they be "autofixed" or do we need an 'fix ASIN' button
(i opt for the button, as it's a safeguard for in the future and somebody inserts a *really weird* link, but it's probably not necessary)

~mo
was away, now back!

my solution for this problem has been commited to trunk [1], rob said he'll put out a preview of an upcoming server release out next week, so by chance you'll be able to do just that :)

[1] http://bugs.musicbrainz.org/ticket/2209

nice!
looking forward to testing it out