Stardocks web of inter-related sites fascinates me. It's kind of like my Grandma's house when I was young. None of the closets in her house had a back wall. The back side of the closet from one room met up with the back side of the closet to the adjacent room and so as a small boy it was easy enough to crawl over the piles of shoes and normal junk most people keep in their closet and go from one room to the next. It was like a big old castle with secret passages.
Stardocks sites are like that as well only more convoluted. The following came up when someone posted a thread on forums.galciv2.com in the "Home > GalCiv II > Bug Reports" forum. The thread referenced an Article posted on Impulsedriven and my initial point was that the same thread already existed on the GalCiv2 site in the same TotA forum that exists on Impulsedriven.
To many I suppose this is old news but to me and I assume others this is at least marginally interesting. Anyway for what it's worth.
Actually the http://forums.impulsedriven.com/323756 article that you reference is the same article as https://forums.galciv2.com/323756.
That is because the Impulse driven forum "Home > My Games > GalCiv II > Twilight of the Arnor" is actually http://forums.impulsedriven.com/forum/483 which is the same identical forum as the GalCiv2 forum "Home > GalCiv II > Twilight of the Arnor" or https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/483.
Also the GalCiv II forum in each path is identical, in one case referenced as http://forums.impulsedriven.com/forum/162 and in the other case referenced as https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/162.
Note that this is how all forums that exist in multiple sites work (I think), however this only works for forums that exist on both sites. For example the "Home > GalCiv II > Metaverse" forum or https://forums.galciv2.com/forum/345 does *not* have a corresponding counterpart on Impulsedriven. That is http://forums.impulsedriven.com/forum/345 does not exist in reality. If you click on the forum link for a forum that doesn't exist you might end up in some kind of inter-forum limbo that isn't related to any obvious place in the site in question (like the back of my grandma's closet). In other cases you may simply get a 404 page unavailable error.
However while you can't see forums from a site that doesn't implemented them you can always see any article at any site even if that particular site doesn't happen to implement the forum that contains the article. Caveat Emptor, I by no means have exhaustively checked this out but so far it seems to be true.
For example going back to the Metaverse forum which is a subforum of the GalCiv II forum (i.e. /forum/345) and is present on forums.galciv2.com but not on forums.impulsedriven.com. However https://forums.galciv2.com/154389 which is Article 154389 which exists in the GalCiv II > Metaverse (i.e. /forum/345) forum also is accessible from forums.impulsedriven.com as http://forums.impulsedriven.com/154389 even though you could never actually find it listed anywhere on Impulsedriven.
Not sure what real benefit any of this provides other than a glimpse of how the underlying structure of these inter-related websites work.
Also interesting is when you highlight and copy a post on one site and paste it into another, funny things can happen. For example the color of links, the sites background style, the font's and even the smilie's can vary. What can be clear and obvious on one site may be very difficult to read on another.
Generally I find that if I paste into Notepad that doesn't support rich text or other formatted (i.e. html) text forms and then copy that into the submit new post box in the different forum then I get the defaults for that forum.
The above copy also managed to copy my metaverse medals (I'm interested in seeing how they show up on other sites).
