# UBB link on main page

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubb-link-on-main-page/39442>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 2, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubb-link-on-main-page/39442 "2000-11-02T20:28:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubb-link-on-main-page/39442/1 "2000-11-02T20:28:38Z")

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On the Straight Dope [main page](http://www.straightdope.com), there’s something up with the link up top to the message boards: For some reason, it’s giving the address of the old UBB board ( [http://www.straightdope.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi](http://www.straightdope.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi) ). It auto-redirects to [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb) , but it’s weird that the link URL should be the old one. Any ideas why it’s reverted this way?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubb-link-on-main-page/39442/2 "2000-11-02T22:52:19Z")

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Probably some leftover from those UBB days that snuck back in when we had a system crash and the techs reinstalled from a backup.

I’ll alert them to the problem and see if we can’t do something about it.

Our apologies.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator