New site- PSA Google searches and bookmarks to old site broken

[greencatdude2]

Hi all.First of all, the new website is spectacular- extreme kudos to the admins that made this happen. Thank you.

Currently, if you do a search from the Google website, most of the results appear to be broken. I’m assuming the new website generates different URLs, so what Google has in its memory points to the old URLs.

I’m guessing that eventually Google, and other search engines, will “re-crawl” the entire site and results will point to the new URLs for each page, and the outdated references will be removed.. over time...

Also- favorites/bookmarks would need to be updated...

 

[Da Nag]

We're working on all of this.

Currently, there's a temporary hack in place to show photos that were embedded from the old albums. A better, more elegant solution is being worked on.

However, for people who created links to C-Brat content, be it forums, threads, user profiles or whatever - yes, every one of those links is broken. The content still remains, but the link addresses to everything changed. The developer is working on ways to rewrite from the old link to new, but that will take some time.

Trust we're taking every problem report seriously, but I want to reiterate the philosophy we took in migrating the C-Brats to this awesome new platform. It was a near certainty the old site was going to fail in one form or another, leaving us with nothing - and 20+ years of content flushed down the drain. The number one goal in this migration was to make sure every bit of data made it across in the migration. That doesn't mean all of that data is visible or usable at this point in time - but it is there, waiting on us to build new components to utilize it once again. Prime examples: The Brat Map, Memberlist, Event Gatherings, etc. All of these will come back in time as the data is still there, and still being collected with new registrations. And I dare say, the replacements for these tools we all enjoyed will be far superior.

Thanks for the kind words...and trust our C-Brat future is bright and now secure for another 20+ years!