New website | confusion with old sites (sub-domains) | dublicated content?

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I do understand that we still want to keep the old links like spins.fedoraproject.org. Fedorians invested a lot of time to create them too.

But I could already find comments in the internet/youtube that the new website partially is not ready yet.

It is not true, people just not understood that we do have a single domain yet.

So i guess it would make sense to make a comment on the subdomain pages that there exists a new version of this sub-domain pages and how they can reach them.

https://spins.fedoraproject.org is not direct reachable over fedoraproject.org/spins there comes a
403 Forbidden error

Correct way to reach the url is using the fedoraproject.org page and select “get fedoa” menu point and choose what they like to see in the sub-menu on the left hand side (on big screens).

Other toughs I had about the subdomains is to retire them in the future, while rename them as an example like old-spins.fedoraproject.org and not let this archives index anymore from search engines. So we can still use the original sub-domain to redirect to the archives, to give users outside of the fedoraproject.org time to change links in howtos/manual too.

I am sure it was the right step to make the official website as a single domain. The feedback in the internet so far is also very positive about this change.

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My preference is to retire the subdomains in favor of permanent redirects to new pages within the new site. We learned (or, are learning) a hard lesson with our very old Fedora Docs content for releases before Fedora Linux 17/18. The search engines are persistent and it can be hard to tell them to ignore very old web content even when you try.

So, I think it would be cleaner to permanently retire the web content on the existing site without rehosting it. I think there are other ways we can honor the work of the community for their time on Fedora Spins, Labs, and their websites.

Generally, I am in favor of this change because I think it will be a good step to making all Spins and Labs feel more integrated into the Fedora web presence. I hypothesize this will give them a little more weight than perhaps they have now.