But what I wish to describe is certainly is a new major problem for me.

Perhaps a month ago TP dropped the public view link to an individual's name, ending with (for example) James-Hoare-FAMILY. This was fairly intuitive for any one provided with the link.

So I set up hundreds of links in external sites using this method. They are now all dead links!

For example:

http://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/family-tree/dukeofyork/26014/807/James-HOARE-Family

(old public view, that sadly no longer works)

The new system now uses something like this

http://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?view=0&rand=195396762&pid=3624&userid=dukeofyork

(family view if I am signed in)

http://dukeofyork.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?view=0&rand=249388000&pid=807&userid=dukeofyork

(public view if I am signed out)

Hardly intuitive.

I do wish TP gives appropriate notice when they make such major changes (in the background). I am now faced with locating all my external links and updating them to the latest URL, hoping that TP don't change the system again.

If you look at my home page, I have had to correct the links to the various sections of my database.