disciple wrote:With the "attracting the wrong sort" thing you could control this with good use of robots.txt, enable it for all forum sections EXCEPT bleatings, that way the only stuff that gets indexed is the gaming, musician, programming and similar stuff, i.e. the core Yakyak content.
It's not really as simple as that as the forum sections aren't a simple directory structure, they're stored in a database.
Still, the interface pretends to have a hierarchy, and isn't it meant to be good form to present them to the world as if they were a directory structure? Like how it's becoming popular for news and blog sites to do things like:
You could mod_rewrite any old URL scheme to the new one, internal user posted links you (optionally) wouldn't have to worry about as they'd sort themselves out over time. But you'd need to update all of PHPBBs internal links to the new scheme which presumably would be right pain since you'd have to start changing the codebase.
You could mod_rewrite any old URL scheme to the new one, internal user posted links you (optionally) wouldn't have to worry about as they'd sort themselves out over time. But you'd need to update all of PHPBBs internal links to the new scheme which presumably would be right pain.
Fix the software, maybe?
I mean; fix the software rather than wrapping it in another layer of abstraction... which, now that I think about it, is entirely at odds with modern software development practices, so I'm probably being more sarcastic than I mean to be.
Heh yeah, updates would be a bitch though. Maybe we should build a bespoke Yakyak eh. =)
I mean; fix the software rather than wrapping it in another layer of abstraction... which, now that I think about it, is entirely at odds with modern software development practices
Well it's only one layer, besides it's a better route than making alterations to proprietary software. Saying that I'm not sure what benefit doing it would offer, obviously we don't do SEO here and people rarely manipulate URLs manually.
A proper URL structure would be nice. It'd be cool to start adding other stuff too, flash content other than youTube would be on my list. =) Also maybe write a search v2 to run alongside the original.
We could do a dynamic sitemap as well, it wouldn't be hard to write and would help Google & co do their thing. We'd have enough people for the league in no time. ;-)
Interesting, not heard of those before, it's almost like how the YouTube tags work currently but instead you'd have a generic tag taking two attributes. Not up on PHPBB but it can't be that hard to write a plugin for can it? Like maybe [link 'x:y'] or something.
Indexing has been back on now for 3 days and is being monitored.
The main worry is that the forum having a bigger presence on search engines may mean we get a lot more spammers. If that happens I'll turn it back off. That hasn't been the case so far.
