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I'm a little upset because I saved in my browser several links pertaining technical articles on Montage, but I realized that 99% are not working anymore.
I understand that website reorganization is needed, but certain articles should have a permanent link.
Posted : 29/01/2021 10:39 am
The link paths are changed often - and even Yamaha's web team doesn't update all of them when the structure changes. I'm not sure necessarily I see stability on this front as it hasn't happened yet through many changes (seems to be once every other year - if not more frequently).
Current Yamaha Synthesizers: Montage Classic 7, Motif XF6, S90XS, MO6, EX5R
Posted : 29/01/2021 3:02 pm
You may be able to find your articles using an Internet search engine.
Posted : 29/01/2021 11:39 pm
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You may be able to find your articles using an Internet search engine.
Of course, even though sometimes it happens that also search engines lead to outdated links. perhaps the sole way is to always start from YamahaSynth learn section and browse.
Posted : 11/02/2021 9:59 pm
@Michael - on googling... it requires remembering the Yamaha terminology and phrasings of things we might internally reference in other words. Words that we'd use to categorise our own bookmarking and referencing systems.
Hence Michele's natural disquiet at finding everything to have been moved. Again.
Yamaha, do better!
Posted : 13/02/2021 1:42 am
This is an unfortunate problem. Searching this forum brings up great useful info, but often some of the best stuff, like Bad Mister's answers, include links to pages that are gone. If you select the provided title of the article and google that, it will take you to the article's current location, which will have some similar but slightly different URL. I don't know why they couldn't keep using the old URL, but at the least, it seems to me that they could have had the old URL redirect to the new one, instead of bringing people to a dead end. It's pretty lame on the part of Yamaha's web designers, or whoever they hired to do it. Informational resources lose some of their value if they get indiscriminately moved, because indeed, people do bookmark and link to them. It's not like it's not still all within the Yamaha domain. Only thoughtless design makes all those valuable bookmarks and links needlessly fail.
For the bookmark issue, most browsers include the page title in the bookmark. If you google that page title, you'll probably get to the current location.
Posted : 17/02/2021 10:37 pm
The web folks seem to monitor the "Site Feedback" category.
Current Yamaha Synthesizers: Montage Classic 7, Motif XF6, S90XS, MO6, EX5R
Posted : 18/02/2021 4:46 am
