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anamaniac   09-22-2009 at 12:13:19 PM
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Hello.
Everytime I go to tomehardware.com, it redirects me to the UK site (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/#redir).
Being that the Americans are closer to me, I tend to prefer the US division.
A few times I accidently lurked the UK site instead.

Not a real issue, but odd and a little bit annoying, and judging by comments on articles I've seen, I'm not the first.
So, someone willing to take a look into the redirecting process? Such as redirecting properly based on IP.

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justinblue   09-22-2009 at 03:17:23 PM
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Hey,

We use a system to redirect non-U.S. users from various places to the UK site. The content on the forums is exactly the same. Unfortunately, I don't have much control over this system or its rules.

Justin

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anamaniac   09-23-2009 at 09:50:24 AM
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Thank you for the response.

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 04:13:59 PM
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justinblue wrote :

Hey,

We use a system to redirect non-U.S. users from various places to the UK site. The content on the forums is exactly the same. Unfortunately, I don't have much control over this system or its rules.

Justin



I live in Mexico, on the border, about a mile from the US, I know you said the content is the same, but if Canadians and Mexicans are redirected to the US site wouldn't it be faster for us?

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 04:21:58 PM
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Is there a way to tweak it so it goes to the US forum all the time?
When I go to the UK site it shows 1 less badge.
And with the difference in distance it should be faster to access the US forum all the time.

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amdfangirl   09-23-2009 at 05:23:34 PM
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I dunno, but mine always seems to be on the US side of things.

You sure you haven't bookmarked the UK site?

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 05:29:02 PM
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amdfangirl wrote :

I dunno, but mine always seems to be on the US side of things.

You sure you haven't bookmarked the UK site?



I don't have it bookmarked.
Maybe I should try to bookmark the US forum and try it that way.

Thanks.

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amdfangirl   09-23-2009 at 05:36:39 PM
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No problem.

Google for me always brings up the UK site.

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dunklegend   09-23-2009 at 05:47:27 PM
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I don't live in the US so in my case it's understandable, but what about you?
Where do you live?

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amdfangirl   09-23-2009 at 05:50:31 PM
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Australia.

I found the US site more reliable than the UK site. Got used to using the US site.

Pity there's no Oceania site.

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randoMIZER   09-24-2009 at 08:38:40 AM
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Try using http://www.tomshardware.com/us and http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ (you must have the final slash for the second link or it will 404 on you). Those go to the US main site and forum respectively. I do know that some people get redirected to the UK forum once they go beyond the forum root anyway, but it doesn't do that for me unless there's a bug.

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anamaniac   09-24-2009 at 09:24:04 AM
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I use tomshardware.com/us.
I reformat quite often though, so for a week afterwards I always get annoyed.

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amdfangirl   09-24-2009 at 11:22:08 AM
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Use that Firefox bookmark saving extension.

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anamaniac   09-24-2009 at 01:51:35 PM
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I backup my bookmarks in a html file, but I usually don't get around to putting them back right away. =D

Maybe I need to stop reformatting...

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amdfangirl   09-24-2009 at 01:56:28 PM
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Yeh, that would help.

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Pyree   02-07-2012 at 05:00:14 AM
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I got the redirection bug and now I can't do any moderation work.

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Pyree   02-07-2012 at 05:09:16 AM
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Who would have though that this 2 years old problem persist?!

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Pyree   02-07-2012 at 05:19:36 AM
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Cancel that. I am fine now.

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