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Forums category LightSwitch no longer works

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Forum category vslightswitch no longer works:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vslightswitch
Displays: "You are not authorized to perform this action."
I use this link every day for many months. It groups the LightSwitch forums together.
I'm on Win7/Win8 IE9, IE10, it fails on all today.
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'vslightswitch' has been a forum category for a long, long time and stopped working just last week.
The MSFT web site LightSwitch Developer Center uses that link to point to it's forums. It is now broken. It is not the only category that broke last week.
It is/was a very useful forum grouping for anyone interested in LightSwitch, just like, say, 'dynamics' is to CRM Dynamics people which still works.
If 'vslightswitch' has been removed as a forum category then I ask for it to be reinstated and whilst on the subject perhaps the Visual Studio and LightSwitch teams should have a say? After all, the links on their web pages are broken by the change too!
Update: Not really resolved, some useful often used categories were removed, links have slowly been changed not to point to mising categories. Now the MSDN forums are just that bit less convenient and easy to use for some people.
For no particular reason, I will mark this as the answer. It is closer than any of the others, and that is that.
Dave Baker | Xpert360 blog | twitter : @xpert360 Opinions are my own. Please mark as answer if this helps solve your problem.
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Links from other Microsoft pages are broken because of this.
See forum link: LightSwitch Developer Center
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff796201.aspx
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I am not the only one to notice this.
The categories, such as 'LightSwitch' are/were very handy for navigation around the forums.
See this, another one is not working:
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-PH/reportabug/thread/79ed308d-329d-40ca-90d3-a13e63d153ae
[Edit] looks like that was a different problem but coincidentally tied back to the system change that probably broke the LightSwitch category link.
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- Edited by Xpert360 Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:38 AM
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Forum category vslightswitch no longer works:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/vslightswitch
Displays: "You are not authorized to perform this action."
Looks like LightSwitch is not a category, just a forum. E.g. you can start here
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/visualstudio
to find
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitch/threads
Oh, I see. It is implied that it is a category by this (which does not cause any errors)
I wonder how many of those are actually categories?
There is a link to Forums at the bottom which might give us a clue...
- Proposed as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Sunday, January 6, 2013 11:12 PM
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'vslightswitch' has been a forum category for a long, long time and stopped working just last week.
The MSFT web site LightSwitch Developer Center uses that link to point to it's forums. It is now broken. It is not the only category that broke last week.
It is/was a very useful forum grouping for anyone interested in LightSwitch, just like, say, 'dynamics' is to CRM Dynamics people which still works.
If 'vslightswitch' has been removed as a forum category then I ask for it to be reinstated and whilst on the subject perhaps the Visual Studio and LightSwitch teams should have a say? After all, the links on their web pages are broken by the change too!
Update: Not really resolved, some useful often used categories were removed, links have slowly been changed not to point to mising categories. Now the MSDN forums are just that bit less convenient and easy to use for some people.
For no particular reason, I will mark this as the answer. It is closer than any of the others, and that is that.
Dave Baker | Xpert360 blog | twitter : @xpert360 Opinions are my own. Please mark as answer if this helps solve your problem.