Moving to the new forums will be great in many, many ways, but it is true that it will be a problem for old historic links, and it isn't really clear that there is much to be done about it other than encourage relevant links to be re-done for the new links and encourage people to repost relevant content under the new forums. We can't do a typical redirect since we are keeping the same URL for the new forums, with the old forums going to something like forums-old.lotro.com. It may be an unfortunate pain point of this process that will be resolved with updated links. Folks should be able to do a copy/replace from forums.lotro.com/restoftheurl to forums-old.lotro.com/restoftheurl, or if faced with a page not resolving change the url from forums.lotro.com/whatever to forums-old.lotro.com/whatever.
Dark Mode is something that we intend to bring in the future, but it will not be available at launch. Messed around with it this morning but unfortunately there are some issues it caused preventing needed elements from displaying correctly. I also tried in a test environment simply flipping the text and background color, but it made the forums not look very good, since some other elements were not able to be changed.
What if OLD forum have same link and everything and NEW forum will have something like forums-new.lotro.com/ ?
Originally Posted by Cordovan
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