On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 22:58:00 +0100, Tim Jackson wrote: > I realise this is not exactly news, but when replacing Ask Fedora, was there > a reason to break all the links on the entire web to existing solutions, > rather than just putting the new system on a different domain? Or, failing > that, at least adding (conditional) redirects and/or links to the "old" > site? > > It seems like finally as Fedora was building up a body of useful "ask"-type > content and get traction on search engines (= searching for things not only > leading to results about Ubuntu), we wiped the slate clean. > > As it is now, whenever I (as a Fedora user) search for something, I still > frequently end up at a dead end on a 404 page on ask.fedoraproject.org. > There isn't even a *link* to the corresponding page on > askbot.fedoraproject.org - surely that, at least, is something we could do?
> (yes, I realise one just has to add "bot" to the hostname, but that's not > the point - not everyone will either realise that, or bother, and it's > trivial to do when generating the error page) No actually, we cannot. Please read the link that Miro provided: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/updating-the-404-template-to-mention-the-move-to-discourse/407/5 -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London
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