Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-32696106-20190601121117/@comment-9605025-20190601231808

It hasn't been that way forever, just since they switched from using usernames to userids. Back when they were using usernames, navigating to that type of page would redirect you to the thread (you would have to use "?redirect=no" to access the actual page). My guess is that they never updated the JS or whatever it was that did that to recognize the userids instead of usernames. I don't remember the exact time they initiated the conversion, but I believe it was sometime around their announcement and release of the user rename tool. The reason being that I recall thinking to myself something along the lines of, "I guess this switch means they don't have to rename a user's thread posts. That certainly could make the task of renaming a user less involved.".