On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 09:12:21 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 01. 11. 19 22:58, 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) > > This is very much needed but apparently, the effort got stalled: > > https://pagure.io/fedora-websites/issue/953 > https://ask.fedoraproject.org/t/updating-the-404-template-to-mention-the-move-to-discourse/407/6 It didn't stall, it was fixed long ago. The 404 page now says: "Welcome to the new AskFedora! Sorry, we couldn't find that page. If you are looking for the older platform, it is archived at askbot.fedoraproject.org. " -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) | https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha Time zone: Europe/London
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