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Make haskell-platform page redirect to the downloads page #147

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MorrowM opened this issue Dec 7, 2021 · 3 comments
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Make haskell-platform page redirect to the downloads page #147

MorrowM opened this issue Dec 7, 2021 · 3 comments

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@MorrowM
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MorrowM commented Dec 7, 2021

Now that the Downloads page is in decent shape I think it might be time to remove the page for the Haskell Platform and make it redirect to the downloads page. As of the time of posting haskell-platform supersedes the downloads page in the search results for "install haskell" on both Google and DuckDuckGo. I've seen a number of people struggling with their GHC/cabal installations because of this, and they end up switching to GHCup anyways, which wastes their time.

A less extreme measure would be to put a deprecation banner up, but that wouldn't be a very smooth experience for newcomers in my opinion.

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@tomjaguarpaw
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Thanks very much for reporting this. I agree. There is some related discussion in #136 (comment)

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Fixing that will close this issue too: haskell-infra/haskell-admins#4

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Fixed by #149 (comment)

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