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JohnH-5568 asked JohnHardman-0474 commented

Why do the old Xamarin forums now point here?

We were told the old forums would still be available to help search for questions, now they just redirect to MS Q&A.

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KyleWang-MSFT answered JohnHardman-0474 commented

Hi JohnH-5568,

Welcome to our Microsoft Q&A platform!

The original Xamarin Forum only focused on Xamarin.

Now most of Microsoft's products can be found in the corresponding sections in Microsoft Q&A, which makes it easier for user to submit the issue.

If you have any Xamarin problem, welcome to post a thread here.

Regards,
Kyle


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That does not answer my question at all. When the Xamarin forums were closed we were told they would be available read-only for future reference. There was a massive amount of useful info on there with answers that no longer show up in search engines, we have lost a huge resource that was useful to 1000's of developers.

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@JohnH-5568 In fact, you can still find them through search engines. It's just that they are all archived to Msdn forum.

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Pity that the user names were lost as part of the archiving process. Knowing who provided an answer gave some indication as to how reliable the answer was.

But, at least the threads still exist - that's something.

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