We dug deeper into the Obby Wiki domain migration
Why did the Obby Wiki really migrate from obbywiki.com to obby.wiki?
Only a few days ago popular community obby documentation website the Obby Wiki officially migrated their previous obbywiki.com domain to their new obby.wiki domain along with additional "improvements." What are these improvements you may ask? Well, we'll get into those later.
Recently, if you're unaware, the Obby Wiki announced why they migrated their already year-old domain name so quickly and what it entailed. However, we believe there's a few things they've left out here, and as a partner we want to explain what we think their post is missing.
To start, we believe the primary reason isn't just a shorter URL. We believe they simply wanted a different URL. After speaking with the technical lead (and really only active staff member) of the Obby Wiki, we believe the recent change was more-so aimed at SEO and brand recognition. While ObbyWiki.com was beginning to gain traction, especially in the indie wiki scene, it lagged behind in Google, arguably unfairly so. They believe due to their poor early structuring of the wiki back when it was first set up and their excessively early index requests that they gave Google the wrong impression of the site. Nowadays the Obby Wiki has a much larger and much more structured approach to content it displays and retains.
Just days after the recent migration we observed the Obby Wiki starting to rank on Google, so, in a sense, they were correct.
This isn't a very heavy article so we'll wrap it up with looking at some of the changes that might affect you in case you're an Obby Wiki reader or contributor.
So, we know that all articles will be on the obby.wiki domain. But, they also changed the routing, meaning that all articles will be on /Article instead of /wiki/Article. Don't worry, all our links and your links will be redirected to the new domain automatically.
Also, as part of the migration you should log-in again on the new domain and update your passwords. Your password manager may not trigger on the new website so you may have to search for it.
And that's it! We also noticed the Home page moved to the root domain, meaning it's just at obby.wiki
P.S: If anyone wants to write an Obby Wiki article about us, feel free!