Re: ask.fedoraproject.org - redirects?

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On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, at 5:58 PM, 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)
> 

When I asked, the answer was that it costs money to do custom redirects, and the old site is going away "soon" so it would be overcome by events sooner or later.

V/r,
James Cassell
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