We got mo'!

[yesthattom]

The campaign is experiencing a lot of momentum today. Things are getting better by the hour!

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[cos]

Oh, right, forgot you went up there. So, while you're there, wanna put in a plug for me (and many other grassroots Dean organizers who have been using the web based tools)? When they abruptly switched from Get Local to the Dean Commons last month, without so much as a few minutes of warning, they also broke all the old links. Even though event searches are fairly similar now, and event IDs were preserved, anyone following an old link to a Get Local search or event got redirected to the front page of the Commons site. Instantly, the events calendars of lots of independent Dean sites all over the web were broken.

We've got a lot of people who aren't very comfortable with computers and the Internet but do have some sort of Internet access, who we had been able to help out in using the Get Local tool, because it was simple and because we could save bookmarks for them. For example, do a search near their ZIP code once, bookmark it on their browser, and show them how to check that bookmark periodically.

It wouldn't take too much work to put a redirect in place so that old Get Local event links and event searches get mapped to the equivalent URLs on the Commons. A lot of us would really appreciate that, for several reasons:
- Save us more work updating various links on web sites
- Stop frustrating people who we set up bookmarks for
- Give us some confidence that we can continue using Commons and it won't be yanked out from under our feet in a way that breaks everything again.,

Unfortunately, no matter how many times I and others commented about this, even pleaded, on the Commons feedback forum, by email, by phone... nobody from the web/tech/tools team has ever so much as even publically acknowledged that they even saw this request, let along that they'd consider doing it.

Very very frustrating.