CCP Websites

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I like to think I am intelligent but then again…

Why are there so many official EVE websites? Why do they not display links to each other?

https://eve-source.com/
https://updates.eveonline.com/
https://forums.eveonline.com/


https://support.eveonline.com/hc/en-us

Is eve redit a CCP offical site? Seems like it.

https://developers.eveonline.com/

Have I missed any? Is there a single page that links all these locations? Why is the EVE pages not interlinked?

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Eve-source is not an official site made by CCP.

The sites created by CCP are all using https://www.eveonline.com/ as domain which connects them and for easy and quick access you can directly use the corresponding subdomain to get to the section of the website you want to access.

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Eve Reddit isn’t official.

Updates is linked to the article, forums, support and the developers site. There’s a burger menu in the top right which has links.

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Thanks for the info.

Any ideas why these sites are not interlinked? For example why these forums do not have links to any other EVE page?

You might see that I am not an expert at this sort of thing.

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There is a what menu? Ah OK, I see that. However the links i have displayed are for the forums.

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Well,

I can´t tell you why ccp did not implement links directly to all the subsections of the webpage. But the use of subdomains in itself is not really an exotic practice. It´s rather quite the norm for big websites.

edit: Using subdomains has one very big advantage compared to not using them.

Now this is just a theoretical example.

Lets image ccp would have the following structure on their webserver:

They have a main folder in which you find the index.html file which is linked to the domain https://www.eveonline.com/

In that folder they have several other folders which contain the pages for different subsections.

For example there could be a folder named community…

Technically it would be possible to access this folder or pages in the folder using the address

https://www.eveonline.com/community/main.html which would display the main community page.

While still being easy enough to access… "https://www.community.eveonline.com/ " is used as the subdomain to directly access that community main page, which is a bit easier to remember for users.

Now we can take this even further, if the community folder has another folder inside which is named “forums” which again contains a file named “forumsmain.html” to directly access the forums through that you would have to type in: “https://www.eveonline.com/community/forums/forumsmain.html” (or more likely .php or whatever but let´s just stick with .html to keep it simple :slight_smile: ).

With the use of the subdomain you shorten it to http://forums.eveonline.com which is a lot shorter and more user friendy.

I guess I can stop at this point, but I hope this makes clear how messy web addresses can become without the use of subdomains, directly pointing at the relevant pages :).

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