# New fourm feedback

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-fourm-feedback/14437>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-fourm-feedback/14437 "2017-11-13T18:22:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2018, 6:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-fourm-feedback/14437/35 "2018-05-24T18:16:42Z")

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> [@grumpy\_old\_git](#):
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> I believe I represent a silent majority of lurkers who slowly drifted away from keeping up with the CDDA community after the changes.

The [server stats](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-forum-is-just-an-awful-reddit/15214/5) say otherwise.

> **Pageviews**
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> ![pageviews](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/9/93626400d40ce95426279380d68ccb4664122265.png)

> [@grumpy\_old\_git](#):
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> Either this forum isn’t indexing properly

This is a problem, I don’t know what’s causing it, but google doesn’t seem to want to index this site.  
It’s on the first page of results for “cataclysmdda”, but nowhere to be found if you search “cataclysm dark days ahead”.

> [@grumpy\_old\_git](#):
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> I hope there are no plans to stop hosting the old locked forums in foreseeable future.

There are no plans to _continue_ hosting the old forums, they are living on borrowed time at this point. Literally every piece of information on the old forums was migrated here, so there will be no loss of information, and I suspect this site might be “shadowed” by the old forums, so once they’re gone the bots should be able to start indexing properly.  
Literally the only thing I’m even considering doing with the old forums is setting up a micro-site that issues appropriate redirects from the old forum urls to the new forum site.

I’m sorry you don’t like it, but maintaining hosting with smf was and is simply not an option.

To clarify, the old smf site went DOWN for almost a month with zero notice, and I had to _stop working on the game_ to do the migration. the options at the time were literally:

1. Discourse
2. No forums

Those are still the options, I can’t afford the time to self-host the forums. The only reason I was willing to put in as much work as I did to migrate to this site was that it resolved the issue semi-permanently. If my only option for keeping the forums running was to self-host, I probably wouldn’t do it.

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