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maniraj1234

Sanguine Did you submit it manually?

No, I have just submitted the sitemap and also used the tool "Fetch as Google" then it displayed this.

Sanguine

maniraj1234 also used the tool "Fetch as Google" then it displayed this

But why did you enter the /api/pages/1 URL there? It should not be a URL that Google fetches.

Sanguine

QTM Hmm right. They profit from ads, and have embedded the image in base64 so people cannot link directly. Oh well, they gotta pay the bills too ?

I see however that Imgur does allow direct linking, and there are several tools available. For example MyImgUr, which says:

Intuitive 1-click actions and simple settings to very quickly capture areas of your screen or specific windows and send them to Imgur for sharing

BTW, if you find the best Flarum-screenshot-embed method for Windows, perhaps you would like to share it here? I guess many other people would like to know about it ?

QTM

Sanguine Imgur does allow direct linking, and there are several tools available

I see ShareX on that list, which I already use for capturing screen video - will take a look to see if it fits my needs for static images. Thanks again!

Sanguine BTW, if you find the best Flarum-screenshot-embed method for Windows, perhaps you would like to share it here?

Will do for sure!

maniraj1234

Sanguine I didn't even know such URL exists, I just tried it with some page link. "/p/1-all-topics" and it said this.

Sanguine

maniraj1234 But /p/1-all-topics is not what is showed in the input box of your screenshot. So you must have pasted it yourself?
Update Sorry, I misread. You are right, I have updated the robots.txt. Could you try again? Thanks for reporting!

QTM

QTM I see ShareX on that list, which I already use for capturing screen video - will take a look to see if it fits my needs for static images.

Works great, and gives direct link to the PNG file which is better (IMO) than the short-link provided by Imgur which inserts an iframe and Javascript into the post which produces a frame with a header and footer.

I can post a general How To (in a new topic) on using it for embedding images in posts from external sources.

QTM

@Sanguine could you please add the following Extension (I love FontAwesome) ...

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/4981-fontawesome-bbcode-extension

Sanguine

QTM Looks cool! But last updated for beta6. I'd rather wait until beta8 is released and then see which extensions are being upgraded for the new interface.

Ref: https://github.com/AntoineFr/flarum-ext-bbcode-fa/blob/master/composer.json

Antoine

@QTM Sanguine My FontAwesome extension is ready to update to beta 8, the code is available on another branch : https://github.com/AntoineFr/flarum-ext-bbcode-fa/commits/next-back

QTM

Okie dokie, will wait for that (BBcode FA). BTW, I have it installed in beta 7.1 and it works fine.

Sanguine

QTM it works fine.

No doubt, but beta8 will break all existing extensions, so unmaintained exts will hold back a global upgrade on FreeFlarum.

Sanguine

FreeFlarum forums now have CSP and HSTS headers and score all ✅ on @clarkwinkelmann excellent Flarum Health Test:

Example:

During the upgrade, for a few minutes a bogus CSP header was live that would block JS execution. Sorry about that, everything should work fine now.

clarkwinkelmann

Sanguine nice job.

Minor note though if you plan to preload you need a maxAge of at least 6 months and includeSubdomains as described here https://hstspreload.org/. No need to include preload if you don't meet / plan to meet the requirements ?

Fla

Sanguine

did you remove / api / from robots? There will be a lot of garbage in the search.

example.com/api/discussions?include=startUser%2ClastUser%2CstartPost%2Ctags&filter%5Bq%5D=%20tag%3Avood&

that's how Google sees the page

Sanguine

clarkwinkelmann No need to include preload

Thanks! Fixed that.

Fla did you remove / api / from robots? There will be a lot of garbage in the search

According to his screenshot, Google parsed the API URL as an AJAX asset, so I was wrong that I assumed Google would see it as an independent URL.

Also, a quick check for discuss.flarum.org shows that Google has no indexed /api/* pages, even though this site does not have a robots.txt. So I concluded that the /api/ restriction is not necessary and perhaps even bad (if Google executes the Flarum JS).

Update: after removing /api/*from robots.txt today, I observed that Google indeed occasionally indexes these urls:

{
    "city": "Mountain View",
    "country": "US",
    "protocol": "HTTP/1.1",
    "remote_addr": "66.249.65.222",
    "request_time": "0.026",
    "status": "200",
    "uri": "/api/discussions?include=startUser%2ClastUser%2CstartPost%2Ctags&filter%5Bq%5D=%20tag%3Afitness&",
    "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"
}

Fla

"blocked resources" in google console

Google scans and registers ALL pages. Good starts up a search, and bad blocks. The more bad pages, the lower the authority of the site. Bad pages (url) should be closed from indexing in robots

and

Consider creating links between pages without nofollow.

Sanguine

Fla Thanks. I don't understand though. These URLs have a content-type of application/vnd.api+json so Google should not interpret them as full pages.

Also, there are no API URLs in the Google index for discuss.flarum.org.

Do you have any idea?

PranavJadhav

@Sanguine Donno what magic u did, every time i do anything on my server i get error on flarum. Ur setup is juts litt. Please answer my few questions.
What is memory and storage allocated per instance?
What if other instances come across high usage, will it affect mine?
Uploading images will be available ever?
U mentioned u can control it from control panel in roadmap, how can i do so? How can i install my own extensions
What if i want to do some changes in mysql?
Thanks , i really appreciate ur work

Sanguine

PranavJadhav

PranavJadhav Donno what magic u did

I went ahead and patched a cache-invalidation bug for FreeFlarum forums, that will be officially fixed in the upcoming beta8.

PranavJadhav What is memory and storage allocated per instance?

That is dynamically allocated. There is, however, a limit of 2 concurrent PHP requests per forum (with backlog). In practice, this is enough for hundreds of simultaneous visitors.

PranavJadhav What if other instances come across high usage, will it affect mine?

Theoretically yes, but it hasn't happened so far. If it would happen (say, a forum becomes very popular), it would get moved to its own dedicated server.

PranavJadhav Uploading images will be available ever?

Perhaps for paid premium plans, but there is no specific roadmap for that yet.

PranavJadhav control it from control panel

PranavJadhav What if i want to do some changes in mysql?

You can currently only change your custom domain, and download mysql data + avatars (from https://www.freeflarum.com/settings).

You cannot run custom SQL, or install your own extensions, as that would break the possibility for mass-maintenance. However, as all the popular extensions are installed, you normally won't require this. If there is anything though, get in touch at info@freeflarum.com and I'll see what I can do for you.

Fla

@Sanguine

Today during the day periodically 504 Gateway Time-out. Are you going to earn on FreeFlarum? Eliminate the errors. Such a service will not cost money. In future.

Sanguine Also, there are no API URLs in the Google index for discuss.flarum.org.

I showed a screenshot. Google sees these links, but they are not in the search. But there will be more of these links. How will Google react to 100,000 such links? Why can not the /API/ close in robots.txt?

PranavJadhav

Sanguine a huge thanks, hats off to your work again

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