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#104
Thank you jason. I appreciate your efforts. And this i should have said also and thats im with the most other posters that the forum is too valuable a resource for me to have whatever happening now deter me from it. Keep up the great work. You have my thanks
 
#106
I like the new layout that allows me to go to dark mode and save my eyes at night. big improvement! I still find it the difficult to search for useful information in threads. Maybe the info-rich posts by the original thread starter could be flagged or promoted somehow? Also, I thought the new site would now offer a 'cancel reply' button to the left of the 'post reply' button, but that was not to be. 🙂
 
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#107
avtech23 said:
have you requested a site reindex via the Google Search Console?
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Each time I get curious and peek in "Whos Here" (list of persons/things browsing the forum) there are a LOT of "Robots", Google, MS/Bing, and others{footnote one}. The first day they were thick as flies on vinegar{footnote two}. I think the 'bots notice that "everything is new!!" and go into a feeding frenzy. This will probably bump the forum much higher on searches.

{footnote one} Whos here AKA Current visitors: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/online/
nikon f Member · From California
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fb Member · From Brisbane, Aus
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Robot: Majestic-12
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tzx100 New member · From china
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Robot: Moz Dotbot

Nearly half of all "Visitors" this evening self-identify as Robots and expose their owners, as they should. Pedal Search may be sketchy (their link-back page sucks). BLEX and Majestic appear honest. On a re-load I got one Bing and two Google, the megaton elephants of search. No doubt both of them will have "the whole site" mapped and linked quickly, if not already.

{footnote two} Quite OT: we have a fly infestation and the old saying is wrong: you catch more flies with soapy cider vinegar than with the best honey.
 
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#108
Web site owner can add a plain advisory robot.txt file with rules who may or may not, and what pages are allowed to be indexed, I wanted to check www.diyaudio.com source page for a robots.txt file but get directed to /community page which doesn't seem to have one.

https://www.robotstxt.org/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard
ps. Petal Search engine is funny, it's constantly looking at "unknown page" pages and very frequently, wondering what those unknown pages are.
 
#109
Jason said:
Yes, queuing up for COVID tests for border-passes, Xmas travel and events, and now spending time with my mum and dad for Xmas... Dev team is away until some time in Jan. We'll get there.

I must have missed your other post - keep the old format? As in classic theme? Yes it will stick around. And over time get closer to the original. Go back, un-migrate? Impossible. We can migrate again (to IPB, Discourse, or something else), yes. But we can't go back to the dumpster fire that comprised our vB3 stack.
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Hi Jason, no I did not mean migrating back (as you said just not possible,) but you have answered my question that the classic look will be tweaked over time.

My big problem is that I was subscribed to many threads, that I kept an eye on as they were either relevant to me and my endeavours, but also interesting to keep track of as a project developed et cetera. Where can this information be found? P.S. I had quite a lot of sub-folders breaking my subscribed stuff into categories.
 
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PRR said:
Each time I get curious and peek in "Whos Here" (list of persons/things browsing the forum) there are a LOT of "Robots", Google, MS/Bing, and others{footnote one}. The first day they were thick as flies on vinegar{footnote two}. I think the 'bots notice that "everything is new!!" and go into a feeding frenzy. This will probably bump the forum much higher on searches.

Nearly half of all "Visitors" this evening self-identify as Robots and expose their owners, as they should. Pedal Search may be sketchy (their link-back page sucks). BLEX and Majestic appear honest. On a re-load I got one Bing and two Google, the megaton elephants of search. No doubt both of them will have "the whole site" mapped and linked quickly, if not already.

{footnote two} Quite OT: we have a fly infestation and the old saying is wrong: you catch more flies with soapy cider vinegar than with the best honey.
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These are normal webcrawlers that index websites to allow people to use search engines to find stuff on the internet. This is usually leveraged by spammers as a way to increase search hits, aka SEO spammers.
 
#111
ferret said:
Hi Jason, no I did not mean migrating back (as you said just not possible,) but you have answered my question that the classic look will be tweaked over time.

My big problem is that I was subscribed to many threads, that I kept an eye on as they were either relevant to me and my endeavours, but also interesting to keep track of as a project developed et cetera. Where can this information be found? P.S. I had quite a lot of sub-folders breaking my subscribed stuff into categories.
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Hit this page: https://www.diyaudio.com/community/watched/threads
 
#112
Thanks Jason for your hard work, and to all the others that helped this migration. I can certainly relate to inter related software versions and plugin, since it was the only reason I migrated from Windows versions over the years. Started pcb design on Orcad for dos, was working great for me, but then happened Windows, and countless upgrades that made countless version non compatible… and that was the same for the old legacy software. Anyone remembered Lotus 123, Wordperfect, Corel, list goes on…

From were I came it was more bitching about hardware upgrade, support of old legacy gears, there are always complains with changes, any one remimbered having to change modem setup string? I do.

Technology goes more and more into software, discrete through holes parts will eventually disappear, smd will be the bare minimum we will have to work it, and probably half the circuit will be in the code.

Anyway I’m very grateful to the great community that still make this great forum still alive and kicking. I was prefer a forum in new disguise, with a solid infrastructure that will survive an other 10 years, to the old one that could had die on us anytime.

That’s our future, and if we don’t keep upgrading ourself, we become obsolete as well. Ok now, time to return to my tube circuit 😉

SB
 
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