Why two forum URLs?

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Coreform_Greg
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Why two forum URLs?

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From the main webpage, the "Community -> Forum" link takes you to https://forum.freecad.org while the top search response on Google is to https://forum.freecadweb.org/. Why are there two different links for the forum, should I be using one over the other (they have different interfaces)?
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Re: Why two forum URLs?

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This is a known issue we are aware of: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=63241

We also have the bug that our FreeCAD style for the forum is no longer the default.

Unfortunately I don't know who can fix this.
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Re: Why two forum URLs?

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Recently there is a transition from freecadweb.org to freecad.org.
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Re: Why two forum URLs?

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We recently got freecad.org, thanks to the KiCAD project who acquired it and donated it to FreeCAD. Note that it's not a migration. We plan to keep both domains. (Mostly to not loose all the links all over he internet). Most web apps are unfortunately not well suited to work across different domains. At the moment we've switched a couple of links to freecad.org, to test and see how bad the situation is. The forum is I think the worst case, because you can't keep logged in using the freecad.org domain. The wiki and the tracker both redirect to freecadweb.org too, but it's more transparent.

In any case, sorry for the inconvenience, please be patient with this while we see how best to move forward..
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Re: Why two forum URLs?

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A quick question: Every time I come to the new forum I have to log in even if I have checked "Remember me". Is that a bug or something wrong in my end?

I use Chrome with adblocker (uBlock Origin) turned off. No other addons.
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Wargenius wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 6:03 pm A quick question: Every time I come to the new forum I have to log in even if I have checked "Remember me". Is that a bug or something wrong in my end?
I have this too since a while, but not sure yet what's causing it
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