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


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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | 
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