Forum has link dupes
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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.
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Messages In This Thread
Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-28-2016, 10:26 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by NiLSPACE - 03-28-2016, 10:50 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by Mathias - 03-28-2016, 10:56 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-28-2016, 10:58 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by Mathias - 03-28-2016, 11:00 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-28-2016, 11:04 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-28-2016, 11:13 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-28-2016, 11:15 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-28-2016, 11:22 PM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by Mathias - 03-29-2016, 12:44 AM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-29-2016, 12:46 AM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-29-2016, 01:03 AM
RE: Forum has link dupes - by LogicParrot - 03-29-2016, 01:04 AM



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