Recent content by dethfire

Some people still uses usenet newsgroups. Some people still use VCRs.

Tell that to the next gen of kids stuck on the phones dating AI avatars Take a poll to see traffic trends over the past year and tell me the crumbs will matter in the end. I run a science site and kids are defaulting to chatbots for homework help.

I use Discourse for work as an admin and I don't like Ruby, but overall in regards to updates and software maturity, it's actually a legit company and light years ahead of XF in terms of modern features. As a user you may not see the difference, but the backend is modern and feature rich. I...

I put in a conditional to only show for logged in users.

Yes they still respect robots.txt for the most part. I can see the quote URLs in the robots gsc report.

User-agent: * Disallow: /*?quote=

Google hasn't been respecting that suggestion for years. They are URL hungry. User-agent: * Disallow: /*?quote=

There is incredible crawl bloat in default XF you can see from GSC reports. I have blocked quote links in robots.txt

Let's get this baked in. Enough is enough.

So many embarassing trending threads. I try to run a serious science site and half my trending threads are joke threads or people pissed off with rants in feedback forum. We really need forum controls.

For some reason I see data-template-name attribute on many html elements. I don't see it here in xenforo source code. I have debug, dev and designer disabled. @Russ does this have to do with xenbase?

I think it's less about ratio and more about volume. I have a 1 reply thread that is 30k lines long. wth is that bloat about.

The media gallery is blocking youtube videos. ChatGPT is recommending adding referrerpolicy="origin-when-cross-origin" to the embed html

My chrome console is giving me these errors lightbox-compiled.js?_v=f4318d9c:13 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'querySelector') at b.updateSidebarIcon (lightbox-compiled.js?_v=f4318d9c:13:269) at b.initSidebar (lightbox-compiled.js?_v=f4318d9c:11:414) at...

Looks like @JoshyPHP you need to add referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" to the iframe