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Forum has link dupes - LogicParrot - 03-28-2016
This is bad.
Each thread has its link:
https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-2366.html
But, each post generates a different link with duplicate content, e.g.
https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-2366-post-24992.html
Duplicates are never, ever good for a website. The previous forum handled this very nicely by using the hash part of the url:
e.g. https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-2366.html#pid24992
RE: Forum has link dupes - NiLSPACE - 03-28-2016
I'm afraid I can't find an option to fix it though :/
RE: Forum has link dupes - Mathias - 03-28-2016
The problem is that the hash part doesn't work if the post is on a different page in a thread.
RE: Forum has link dupes - LogicParrot - 03-28-2016
(03-28-2016, 10:56 PM)Mathias Wrote: The problem is that the hash part doesn't work if the post is on a different page in a thread.
Yes it does.
https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-2049-page-4.html#pid21775
RE: Forum has link dupes - Mathias - 03-28-2016
(03-28-2016, 10:58 PM)LogicParrot Wrote:(03-28-2016, 10:56 PM)Mathias Wrote: The problem is that the hash part doesn't work if the post is on a different page in a thread.
Yes it does.
https://forum.cuberite.org/thread-2049-page-4.html#pid21775
If you include page-x, yes, but for some reason MyBB decided to use post-x instead.
I'll see what I can do about this though.
RE: Forum has link dupes - LogicParrot - 03-28-2016
Why this is harmful:
- Confuses search engine crawlers. At best, we'll get double links in search results, at worst, some search engine will suspect we're doing something fishy and decrease our rank.
- Confuses a browser's cache, making it download the same content twice if visited from two different links.
- Confuses reverse proxies'
- Confuses humans.
- Messes up hyperlink colors.
- Messes up analytics.
- Makes mass regex replacements harder.
- Makes site scrapers/archivers download many redundant pages. (What if I want an offline backup of the forum so that I can read it in some remote area). We should probably fix this before the [url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/forum.cuberite.org[Internet Archive[/url] starts archiving this site.
- There are probably many more issues that I have not considered.
RE: Forum has link dupes - LogicParrot - 03-28-2016
It appears that myBB applies the canonical tag to the duplicate links. This means it will not confuse search engines. But this should still be fixed imo.
RE: Forum has link dupes - LogicParrot - 03-28-2016
@Mathias, I believe you have now brought back the old link format all across the site. e.g. https://forum.cuberite.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=5
Edit: Looks like someone is experimenting with this an trying different formats.
It's worth noting that the problem persists even with this format:
https://forum.cuberite.org/Thread-forum-has-link-dupes?pid=25600#pid25600
RE: Forum has link dupes - LogicParrot - 03-28-2016
Umm, currently the site is completely messed up ^_^
RE: Forum has link dupes - Mathias - 03-29-2016
Ugh, I don't know how to fix this issue. :/