Thread url's in update notifications

[RS_Jelle]

Mod update notifications are using the old topic url for years. Please change the http://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=number format to the new http://vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=number :D

A small change, but the old one is deprecated and the new one is smaller.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Actually 'threadid' is still the official variablename. The shorthand notation 't' gets automagically also recognised and duplicate to 'threadid' in each vB script.

[Paul M]

Internally the short versions are not used, they are, as Marco says, converted.

JFYI, this is the conversion array ;


var $shortvars = array(
'f' => 'forumid',
't' => 'threadid',
'p' => 'postid',
'u' => 'userid',
'a' => 'announcementid',
'c' => 'calendarid',
'e' => 'eventid',
'q' => 'query',
'pp' => 'perpage',
'page' => 'pagenumber',
'sort' => 'sortfield',
'order' => 'sortorder',
);

[RS_Jelle]

A request to change this at least on the homepage as Google and other search engines are spidering now both showthread.php?t=xxx and showthread.php?threadid=xxx.

Search engines are seeing this as duplicated content, which is a bad thing for your PageRank :)
Unique content is a SEO basic and also vB itself isn't using it like that (only internally).