Hello Holy Damage,
Thanks for the post. If you would like a quicker response you can always contact us at :
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To answer your questions, the affiliates still get the click and the credit when a signup happens. All the links in the new gallery template are simple /signup/signup.php links which are not registering hits / cookies, so it cannot overwrite the existing affiliate cookie.
The redirects are done from the old galleries, to the new Free Hosted galleries, because we deemed them as inefficient a while back, and had those redirecting to the new Free Hosted Galleries.
The unencoded links in the template were a bug, though and is now fixed, however, those were also not affecting the affiliate cookies / tracking at all.
If an affiliate grabs a link code from NATS to the new galleries, this bug won't happen as the NATS redirect will append the affiliate code after to URL and the template will respect that.
Hope that explanation helps. We appreciate the feedback on the bug. Cheers.