Discuit has migrated from discuit.net to discuit.org
Because that's more fitting for a non-profit
Many months ago, sometime after we had conclusively decided that Discuit was to be a non-profit, I saw that the discuit.org domain name was available, so I immediately went ahead and bought it. Because, of course, the .ORG top-level domain is far more fitting for a non-profit website than the .NET top-level domain.
However, I couldn’t immediately make use of the new domain because Discuit is more than just a regular website; it’s also a Progressive Web App (PWA), that can be installed, almost as a regular app, on user devices. And migrating a PWA to a new domain is a tricky thing—for starters, it’s not too difficult to completely wreck all the existing PWA installations.
In fact, since PWAs are in part identified by the domain name that they point to, this cannot technically be done. The only way to make it sort-of work is to:
Keep the old domain working as it is for the existing users (that is, for the existing PWA installations and others who’ve visited Discuit before), without redirecting them to the new domain when they visit the old one.
Redirect new users to the new domain when they visit the old domain.
Simple as that may sound, getting all the technical details correct was still not altogether trivial. Now, finally, all the necessary changes are made and Discuit is officially from now on at discuit.org.
As I mentioned, if you’re an existing user (or if you’ve only just visited Discuit before) the discuit.net domain will continue to work for you. But I would still encourage going over to discuit.org and accessing Discuit from there in the future.
If you’re an existing user and you’d like to be automatically redirected to discuit.org, then simply clearing the browser cookies for the old domain, discuit.net, will do. Before you do that, however, make sure that you’ve saved your password, otherwise you might get locked out of your account (and it’s a good idea to add an email address to your account, so that in case you lose your password, you can reset it).