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Originally Posted by KinkMatty
Biggest note: You do not have to update your links. We have worked extensively to make sure that your NATS links will track to your new account! So, feel free to start using the new link tools in Beta, but don't stress about your old links getting lost!
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Matt you've always been awesome to me and I'm not here to break your balls on GFY. But in the face of that cheery assertion, I do need to warn people it's not quite that simple. I have affiliate links going back to 2004 or so and not all of them are working under the new design. There are also some sites that don't seem to be included in the new program at all (like 3D Kink) where the links still appear to work but it's unclear how or whether the traffic will be tracked once the old kinkydollars is phased out. And let's not even talk about links to Pissing.com, which all broke when you apparently sold off or licensed that content to Kenny's Pennies -- something I still would not know about if
they hadn't sent me a newsletter about it.
One set of links that's broken are the old links to model profiles. They've been broken since June of 2015 when the redesign began. On June 17, 2015 you personally wrote to me:
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We have made senior engineering aware of the issue you discussed around model and shoot custom links from NATS that are getting 404'd. While we look for a solution, we can assure you that your traffic is being tracked through the 404 and you are getting credit in "STAN" for that traffic. I want to also assure you that resolving the 404 issue so that these links will work correctly is a top priority to my IT team, as well.
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Bold in original. Links still not working 14 months later. I had to stop linking to model profiles for more than a year, although the new custom link maker would appear to allow me to start again now finally.
There's another category of links that's 404ing for me that I haven't tracked down solidly enough yet to file a support ticket about, so no blame on these -- you can't fix what you haven't been told about. These all date to 2009 or so. I'll go file a support ticket about them now that this thread has reminded me.
So, yeah, people. The new KinkDollars Beta program really is quite awesome. But if you've got a huge base of old installed links, you
do need to check them and you'll find that rather a lot of them need fixed.