TV's Frink said:
This looks related to my post about www.originaltrilogy.com/forum not working.
That's exactly what it is.
By the way, none, the topic title can change and it won't hurt the functionality of the link. The software only looks at the forum/category/topic ID when pulling the data, and it's also smart enough to recognize when the topic title has changed from what's requested in the link and redirect the user to the proper URL. There's no need to truncate it. Actually, you hurt our search engine rankings by removing that text because keywords in the URL are a factor in page rank.
Check out this URL and how it redirects you to the proper page: