# Alternate URL's for The Dope?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-urls-for-the-dope/657392>\
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**Created:** [May 3, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-urls-for-the-dope/657392 "2013-05-03T07:25:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-urls-for-the-dope/657392/1 "2013-05-03T07:25:01Z")

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Googling for various things on The Dope, I sometimes find threads under:

[noparse]http://[/noparse]board.[noparse][straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever}](http://straightdope.com/sdmb/%7Bwherever%7D)

and:

http://[/noparse]boardstest.[noparse][straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever}](http://straightdope.com/sdmb/%7Bwherever%7D)

as well as the usual place:

http://[/noparse]boards.[noparse][straightdope.com/sdmb/{wherever}](http://straightdope.com/sdmb/%7Bwherever%7D)  
[/noparse]  
What are these addresses?

ETA: They all seem to re-direct to the same place. When I created this post itself, it immediately appeared at all of the above addresses.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-urls-for-the-dope/657392/2 "2013-05-03T07:38:28Z")

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It seems that [anything.straightdope.com](http://anything.straightdope.com) will get you here. You could even [personalize it.](http://senegoid.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689921)

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2013, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-urls-for-the-dope/657392/3 "2013-05-03T08:20:27Z")

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> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> It seems that [anything.straightdope.com](http://anything.straightdope.com) will get you here. You could even [personalize it.](http://senegoid.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=689921)

Except [www](http://www.straightdope.com), of course.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-urls-for-the-dope/657392/4 "2013-06-05T19:47:49Z")

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Just wish to let you know there’s a downside: you won’t be logged in to the new link.

One of the links on Google linked to a variation, and it was weird.

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**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2013, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternate-urls-for-the-dope/657392/5 "2013-06-05T19:50:29Z")

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Funny **Senegoid** , how I am getting “[senegoid.straightdope.com](http://senegoid.straightdope.com)” every time I search from Google.