Why do we still have the old downloads site if it's not updated?

[XtremeAero426]

Why does this page still exist even though it's not updated?

http://files.minecraftforge.net/minecraftforge

 

It should at the very least have a disclaimer that it's outdated. It's especially misleading since it shows up under the first google result for "minecraft forge download".

[Ugdhar]

Weird what  google do you use?

https://www.google.com/search?q=minecraft+forge+download&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

gives me files.minecraftforge.net as the first link, without any reference to the old page. . .

 

*edit: just looked at your screenshot. Why would you click a sublink? The very first link is the index page. . .

Edited May 30, 2017 by Ugdhar

[LexManos]

Actually you're right there is really no reason to keep the index.html up. Could just make a header redirect to the normal download page.

All the files are mavenized so that has no more data then the normal download page... 

Edit: Uploaded a redirect.

[XtremeAero426]

On 5/30/2017 at 3:35 AM, Ugdhar said:

Weird what  google do you use?

https://www.google.com/search?q=minecraft+forge+download&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

 

gives me files.minecraftforge.net as the first link, without any reference to the old page. . .

 

*edit: just looked at your screenshot. Why would you click a sublink? The very first link is the index page. . .

It's labeled "Minecraft Forge Downloads" so someone could think that the main link was an about page and that the listed sub-page was the specific download page. Many sites have the index page and download page as separate pages.