Support for the old "http://www.board.com" URL

General Discussion
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I’ve been using a service to redirect the old board URL http://www.board.com to the new board URL https://www.discourse.com. This was to make it easier for users to find the new board.

My question is do we still need this?

The free plan for the service allows us to have free 250,000 redirects permonth. We are currently at 261,817 and for all of January its going to be a total of 477,416 redirects.

if we do not take action to lower the amount of redirects or upgrade to a paid plan within 7 days, the account will be blocked and all future redirects will stop working.

You will still be able to get to the board by typing https://www.discourse.com. That won’t change.

The basic paid plan is $25 CDN a month. I’m basically paying for all of this stuff myself and I don’t want to pay another $25 a month.

Is it still needed ???

I could set up a web hidden page with the old board address to do a 302 redirect to the new board address but that wouldn’t be for a while as I’m really busy at the moment.

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Hi Brian- is the redirect for people who have bookmarked the old page, and then it automatically sends them to the new page? If so, seems redundant, as long as people can go to the website and click on the link to Discourse.

thanks for all your continued work!

Chris

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Thanks Chris. Thats what I was thinking.

I could do it in DNS but its bad for search engines, and since the old board was so old it wasn’t encrypted it can’t convert it on the fly

I’ll just let it expire and they add it back in when we have time