The Windows Secrets redirect is in place

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We’ve moved over all of the Windows Secrets users, adding “WS” to the front of their usernames. We’ve brought across all 150,000-or-so Topics (mostly
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Confused… Moved over the Windows Secrets users (newsletter subscribers) or the Windows Secrets Lounge users (forum members)?

Shouldn’t the post title be ‘The Windows Secrets *Lounge* redirect is in place‘?

Why is it so hard to differentiate between the two entirely seperate entities?

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Both newsletter subscribers & WSL forum users have been moved. I get redirected no matter what Windows Secrets URL I enter.

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joep517 wrote:

Both newsletter subscribers & WSL forum users have been moved. I get redirected no matter what Windows Secrets URL I enter.

That’s clearer, i.e both groups have apparently now been moved. Thanks Joe.

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The newsletter subscribers arrived about 3 months ago (abt 13.5k); the WSL forum users have arrived in the last week (abt 95k – incl. the spammers that arrived).

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Kirsty wrote:

The newsletter subscribers arrived about 3 months ago (abt 13.5k); the WSL forum users have arrived in the last week (abt 95k – incl. the spammers that arrived).

So the newsletter subs dropped from over 400K to 13.5K in the space of what, a year? Man, that’s some fall off a cliff.

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Lugh wrote:

Kirsty wrote:

The newsletter subscribers arrived about 3 months ago (abt 13.5k); the WSL forum users have arrived in the last week (abt 95k – incl. the spammers that arrived).

So the newsletter subs dropped from over 400K to 13.5K in the space of what, a year? Man, that’s some fall off a cliff.

But not really a surprise, given the downhill nature of WS article ‘quality’…

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> “Attempts to visit WindowsSecrets.com now redirects to our Windows Secrets Landing page.”

During the past 2 days or so, when searching for topics about Win OS via search engines, I had clicked on results linking to specific forum topic discussions hosted at the Windows Secrets domain.

Now all the Windows Secrets URLs — regardless of discussion topic — redirect to the same generic AskWoody’s Windows Secrets landing-page, instead of the respective pages as migrated to AskWoody. Is it possible to make the URL redirects more specific ?

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As of yesterday, we have imported the Topics from Windows Secrets Lounge. But the posts (replies) just began the import about midday yesterday. We are far from complete, there were over 1,000,000. So links to data that is not here yet, won’t work. It will be a while before we are all together.

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Is it possible to make the URL redirects more specific ?

That is the plan, which will be a great achievement if it works.

As PKCano says, it’ll take a while, maybe mid-May, before all the WS posts are transferred.

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