Thread link not working

[Tellos Athenaios]

It's a problem with special characters in the thread name, which translate into special characters in the URL. Some browsers have issues with that, and it's a problem I've had to deal with before on the site. There's no easy automated solution because changing settings with either cause problems for some people or disable some features.

Dunno how much work this would be, but you could change the forum links to strip characters past the thread ID (number) in the URLs. That would work, because the forum only needs the number (old vB style forum links still work, too). I.e showthread.php?ID-here or showthread.php?t=ID-here both work.

It goes without saying that people can use the same approach to manually fix links/URLs.

[TinCow]

Yes, that is possible. However it negatively impacts search engine indexing. If the problem was epidemic I would certainly choose that route over the current one, but it seems to be very rare and most of the incidents we've noticed have been traced back to Lemur. We have flogged the man heavily for his sins and that should help reduce the issue further. A few threads a year can be edited manually without much complaint.