Forum Wipe Question.

[Kane-Hart]

It seems a bit odd that you retained some but not all the posts. May I ask what the reason was for not keeping all the old content? Almost 90% of the google content now goes to a dead page. I only bring this up because this is a good way to kill yourself and page rankings and such on Google.

Overall the next few months for Age of Conan google redirects to the site will drop a lot once the old pages start to die out.

I just wanted to know being a AO Player for ever why someone would make such a Job costing mistake.

EDIT: Ahh http://forums.ageofconan.com/showthread.php?t=180361 Forgot to SEO it right though

[Vorbiz]

As far as I can see the only posts kept are a few official ones made by Tarib and others back in the days of 2008.

As for why not transfer all posts, I can't say for definite but in my experience of maintaining and playing admin on forums: its too much data.

Hundreds of thousands of posts takes hours or days to backup, put onto the new forum, and creates countless technical issues.

And only a few topics would actually be of use. And those that are can be copied across.

[Argantes]

I guess you´re referring to the old US forums, where the old URL was forums.ageofconan.com .. when you google for some topic now, it says that the link is dead, BUT.. you must add the "-us" suffix in the URL, since the backup is now at http://forums-us.ageofconan.com

before the merges, US forum was without -us suffix, while EU forum had -eu suffix, after archiving, those EU forums still got the -eu suffix, but US forums got new -us suffix now and global forum are the new ones without any suffix


but I agree, that they should keep those archives as long as it´s possible

[Arishanya]

but I agree, that they should keep those archives as long as it´s possible

They are keeping the forums open until July 1st - while many of you think this isn't long enough, Funcom is keeping them open as long as they can.

Please be sure to copy any content over that you want on these new forums because after the 1st of July 2013, all links to the old forums will no longer work.