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Final shutdown and removal of Astaro.org

ruckus

Hi All,

The time has come to shutdown the https://astaro.org site.  With the migration of the forums and threads to the Sophos Community complete and the Astaro site in a static read-only mode I wanted to post and let you know what's happening next.

Having initially posted to the moderator's board (hidden to most) about the plan and to get feedback I don't see anything that blocks shutting down the site.  Therefore we plan to take the Astaro.org site offline on January 20th (one week from today as of writing) and redirect forum links on that site to the corresponding forum here.

I'd like to thank all members of the UTM group for their patience while waiting for the migration to complete - moving several hundred thousand posts was no small task. 

If you have any comments or questions please post below.



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  • Am I the only one in favor of keeping it open for searching and consultation? It takes so long here to scan posts and threads - it's like trying to hike througha pit with mud up to your knees!
    When I remember a particular post, I go to google and search with site:astaro.org. At least that way I can find what I was looking for quickly. Then, I select a distinctive phrase to search for here so that I can supply the Community link in my post.
    Cheers - Bob
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  • Am I the only one in favor of keeping it open for searching and consultation? It takes so long here to scan posts and threads - it's like trying to hike througha pit with mud up to your knees!
    When I remember a particular post, I go to google and search with site:astaro.org. At least that way I can find what I was looking for quickly. Then, I select a distinctive phrase to search for here so that I can supply the Community link in my post.
    Cheers - Bob
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  • in reply to BAlfson

    BAlfson said:
    I go to google and search with site:astaro.org. At least that way I can find what I was looking for quickly. Then, I select a distinctive phrase to search for here so that I can supply the Community link in my post.

    Is there a problem with search that I'm not aware of?  Search is, to my knowledge, working well.  Since you cannot search Astaro.org directly, as you say, you have to use Google and can restrict to a particular site.  However whatever phrase you use in Google against the Astaro.org domain will work with the community.sophos.com domain or in the search box on community.sophos.com.  I don't understand why you feel forced to go to Google with a phrase on an Astaro.org site search when that same phrase will work here, or as a community.sophos.com Google site search?

    SearchResult

    Google site search of Astaro.org:

    site: astaro.org "I assumed that you had set it as VLAN 1"

    Three results:

    Google site search of community.sophos.com:

    site: community.sophos.com "I assumed that you had set it as VLAN 1"

    One result:

    Direct search on community.sophos.com:

    "I assumed that you had set it as VLAN 1"

    One result:

    Since you must be using a phrase in the Google site search of Astaro.org, can I ask you try that same phrase, in quotes most likely to match the Google site search format, on the community directly and let me know if it fails to find the information?

    I'd really like to know if search is a problem.  We are looking to change the site navigation but that's a separate item to any search problems.

  • in reply to ruckus
    Yes, search works better in the Sophos Community than it did on astaro.org. Google is superior to both and does indeed find things in both sites.

    The problem is that one doesn't remember enough about the thread to be specific enough in the search criteria, so one often needs to glance at four, five or more suggested threads to find the one post that solves the problem. Community.sophos.com serves pages up so slowly that it's impractical to try to run through a half-dozen threads. Well, that and the often-discussed issues of the size of the typeface, the lack of navigation tools, etc.

    Cheers - Bob
  • in reply to BAlfson
    Thanks for the clear explanation. I was having a hard time expressing the exact same thing. We end up at google not because we don't know where the search functionality is, it seems a lot easier saying [ email tld balfson astaro.org ] in google to get the result much faster than any other method.

    Regards