My original plan was to move towards LessWrong.com as soon as possible, and our initial target was November 1st. However, as it became clearer that speed and performance were more of an issue than I initially anticipated, I ended up moving our timetables back. I also really don’t want to destroy all the SEO traffic that currently goes to LessWrong.com (i.e. while discussion on here is much more lively, total traffic to LessWrong.com is still about 4x higher than the traffic to this page, because of all the old evergreen content).
I think having somewhat of an awkward period with both pages up is bad, but not horrible, and worth the cost of reducing the probability of losing all that old link-juice (for example, right now some of the images from the old sequences posts don’t work, which would definitely need to be fixed before the proper launch. And the loadtimes are sometimes large enough that Google might give us an SEO penalty)
Open to suggestions on how to minimize the damage in the meantime.
Yeah, I agree with this.
My original plan was to move towards LessWrong.com as soon as possible, and our initial target was November 1st. However, as it became clearer that speed and performance were more of an issue than I initially anticipated, I ended up moving our timetables back. I also really don’t want to destroy all the SEO traffic that currently goes to LessWrong.com (i.e. while discussion on here is much more lively, total traffic to LessWrong.com is still about 4x higher than the traffic to this page, because of all the old evergreen content).
I think having somewhat of an awkward period with both pages up is bad, but not horrible, and worth the cost of reducing the probability of losing all that old link-juice (for example, right now some of the images from the old sequences posts don’t work, which would definitely need to be fixed before the proper launch. And the loadtimes are sometimes large enough that Google might give us an SEO penalty)
Open to suggestions on how to minimize the damage in the meantime.
To minimize damage, I think publish a clear interim policy on what to post here vs. there main or both or link from a discussion post.
It may not match the ideal policy, but creating common knowledge matters.
Agreed. Any updates on this @habryka?
Seconding the need for a clear policy.