Say hello to our fresh new look

@DSJXD_OKue I'll chime in here too.

We know that a ton of users are coming from google and the redirects were carefully evaluated by our web and SEO team. It wouldn't make sense to do 404 since that would mean lost traffic and some of the content was actually properly mapped to this community (1000 individual URLs accounting for the majority of the traffic). The most ideal would have of course be to be able to map everything or migrate all the content but the old forum was left unmoderated for too long and a lot of the content was just not up to date. Migrating all this to the new space would have been a nightmare for everyone. At least here we know the content is up to date and if you don't find what you're looking for, there's plenty of people ready to help.

You're not clicking links that are for this community but the old one. We didn't break google search, read above and you'll find more context as to what is happening.

We can't think about a change like that and account for every single use cases, every URLs and every threads. I'm sure there will be more cases where the info would have been useful but a lot of the content was in fact outdated or inaccurate. By design, if it leads to the homepage I know the content was ranking in the lower 10% and was getting less than 300 visits in the last year. While perhaps useful, it's hardly critical when you consider the volume of visits and page views. We prioritized what was critical and valuable to the majority of visitors (and that content is already here).

We didn't just decide to turn off a switch and be done with it. We spent a ton of time looking at data and the content in the old community. We are all pretty confident we made the best long term call to give users access to the best and most useful information in the future.