Pages are almost invisible when moving from www. subdomain to forum. subdomain with 301 redirect

A few observations, but nothing super actionable unfortunately. You would probably do well to engage an SEO specialist.

  1. It’s a fairly recent move, so things might just need some time
  2. Looking at your charts, somehow the total traffic (which is what I’m assuming is the second chart) seems to be very steady, which is very strange if you’ve just moved a significant chunk of content away from that total.
  3. The content is in the new index, including fairly old topics. So the indexing isn’t the issue.
  4. The old content is still in the google index, which is sort of surprising, but might be due to reason #1
  5. Could this just be an issue with the search console? Do you also see a decline in e.g. visits and users posting?
  6. There isn’t a lot of activity. Looking at /latest there is no content in e.g. October. Are you sure that all relevant content is accessible to google?
  7. Did you modify your robots.txt in any way? if so, consider reversing that to defaults
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