We’re mulling over whether we made the wrong call using ‘discourse’ in our URL. Yes the word has a relevant meaning, but in hindsight there were better and more obvious options. There are plenty of examples of accepted uses of product names as DNS records, plenty of orgs still run their webmail at e…

Sounds like a thursday afternoon where I work… It’s not as bad as it looks on paper- a few days time at the most. How much ranking has accrued on Google etc. – SEO loss is much more of a hassle to fix. If people can’t find you, people don’t visit.

in general I feel like using discourse is not a great choice for your subdomain name. I usually prefer forum, discuss or community I really like discuss its usually my first pref, cause its a bit of a call-to-action.

Pick your DNS name wisely

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Stephen (Stephen) 2015 年 7 月 26 日午後 11:23 3

We plan to use Cloudflare for redirection, but yes, SEO is another casualty of the move.

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