There is good reason for the GUID. Several years ago, Microsoft kept moving content around and breaking links (primarily to KB articles) that others had made. Several years in a row, this issue was raised to Microsoft executives at the MVP Summit. The GUIDs, while inconvenient, fixed the problem.

>Hard to say, but there are indeed some problems on that site. And there is something to be improved in the interface.
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>Frankly, GUID of the site concerned I found UniversalThread to be the best and the more convenient to use than any of the other forums I visit. But it's, of course, just a personal observation.