eaforum.org now redirects to this forum

By Niel_Bowerman @ 2015-05-03T15:39 (+3)

With the launch of effectivealtruism.com for William MacAskill's new book 'Doing Good Better', I thought it would be useful to have a second short easy-to-remember URL that points at the forum so I set one up.

undefined @ 2015-05-03T17:46 (+1)

Are there plans to make that the canonical URL, or otherwise solve the potentially confusing similarity between effective-altruism.com and effectivealtruism.com?

undefined @ 2015-05-03T20:13 (+3)

I've considered this. On the upside, there's clearer separation from effectivealtruism.com. On the downside, I'd have to place redirects, we'd downgrade to a .org address and we'd lose some SEO (Posts from the Blog have now been at this address for a couple of years). For those reasons, moving to eaforum.org doesn't feel like a significant forward step to me. What might feel more exciting is combining the various pages into something like book.effectivealtruism.com, blog.effectivealtruism.com, wiki.effectivealtruism.com at a later date... Though I'm sure there's reasonable disagreement here.

undefined @ 2015-05-03T20:35 (+1)

Yeah, that makes sense. I like the subdomains idea :)

Niel_Bowerman @ 2015-05-06T09:41 (+1)

Yeah, I imagine there's some version on the subdomain option that could work. I'll put this on Kerry Vaughan and Tyler Alterman's radars as they are now managing those domains.