'Not found post' redirecting to home page, showing soft 404 error, instaed of hard 404 error
By Pawan on Wednesday, 12 February 2014
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if a post is not found, EasyDiscuss redirects user to Home page with the message "page not found error".
This means it intercepts a 404 page not found error and returns to Home page.
This produces a "soft 404" behaviour in my google webmaster tools, and is not recommended by Google.
Currently my site's home page was de-indexed by google with this reason (soft 404 in bulk).

How can I show hard 404 error page when a post is not found?
Hello Pawan,

Sorry for the late reply. I have already added this in EasyDiscuss task list. It will be release in the next major version Hope this helps.

Thanks!
Adelene
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Wednesday, 12 February 2014 18:28
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Any time estimate on the next major version?
Pawan
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Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:16
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Hello Pawan,

Sorry for the late reply. For now there is no estimate for next major EasyDiscuss. However if we do we will definitely inform all our users

Thanks!
Adelene
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Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:54
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Any update on this important issue?
Ken Williams
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Monday, 07 July 2014 02:07
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Hello Ken Williams,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Yes, the latest version of Easydiscuss already included this when the post thread is not found, it will show you 404 error message. Hope this help.
Arlex Wong
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Monday, 07 July 2014 11:57
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