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Should prev.rust-lang.org be shut down? #2102

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Marcono1234 opened this issue Dec 28, 2024 · 4 comments
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Should prev.rust-lang.org be shut down? #2102

Marcono1234 opened this issue Dec 28, 2024 · 4 comments

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@Marcono1234
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Currently the old website is still running on https://prev.rust-lang.org. There are the following potential problems with it (at least from my external perspective):

So would it make sense to shut down prev.rust-lang.org? If necessary the old information can probably still be found in https://github.com/rust-lang/prev.rust-lang.org (see also #291).

Might need additional changes then to update and remove references to prev.rust-lang.org.

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senekor commented Dec 28, 2024

Users might accidentally land on the website and might be confused

Has this actually happened to you or someone you know? My gut feeling says this is very unlikely.

I don't know why it's still up but I also don't see much harm in keeping it up. I'm neutral on this.

@Manishearth
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I'd be in favor of shutting it down with a redirect. @rust-lang/infra ?

@Marcono1234
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Marcono1234 commented Dec 30, 2024

Users might accidentally land on the website and might be confused

Has this actually happened to you or someone you know?

I accidentally found it as part of rust-lang/surveys#322 (comment). It certainly was a bit confusing, but I was aware of the latest Rust version and the prev. in the domain gave a hint. But for users new to Rust I can imagine it being pretty confusing.

As mentioned a bit in #2101, maybe the greatest risk is that users accidentally find it when looking for Rust content in a specific language, especially if the old page was translated in that language and the new one isn't (e.g. for German). Then chances might be higher that they see the old page in the search results.

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Noratrieb commented Jan 2, 2025

SEO is still really good and shows it. Even when searching something that actually exists like "lang team rust" it shows up very high.
Google search for rust team finding prev.rust-lang.org

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