Rhett

@Brian    ?   
 
 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

Sell any bitcoins now that you may have before it pops...  

@Rhett 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

I like this idea.

@Brian    ?   
 
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

@Brian    ?   
 
 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

Again, the sitemap is not a YOU CAN ONLY LOOK AT THESE LINKS GOOGLE LOL.
The sitemap just informs Google of "important" URLs on your site. It will use these as a base to spider out from.
I have no idea why Google is not updating the meta data of your indexed URL. That's not down to the sitemap. That's down to Google not refreshing the data. Google will pull the replies meta data from the page itself.
To save me bother, what is the URL to that topic? I'd like to review the meta tags in the json LD to make sure they're correct.

I think we need to be mindful the the sitemap is just one way that Google discovers and crawls links.
What goes in the sitemap isn't a hard rule that Google must only check out those links, so there's little point in adding too many restrictions here and there because it'll be mostly pointless. You'll submit fewer links, but Google will still pull up the ones you didn't add.
I did add a setting for profiles, because of the huge number of 'dead' profiles that stuff up the sitemap, which is just a waste.

What may or may not be in the sitemap doesn't solve why Google is shedding indexed pages.
That said, when using the new search console, the figures are totally different.
We have 92k indexed pages
We have about 400k pages that Google has either 'discovered' or 'crawled but not indexed' due to its own algorithms. These are 301 redirect links (this is OK, it has no reason to store these) and empty profiles which have almost zero content.
But it's important to realise that Google is not punishing us, it is just working harder to index content that it thinks others will find useful, and "Johnny@11" who registered in 2011 and has never posted doesn't count any more.
 
 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you
 

There is no need to tag anyone really as we all read this feedback section regularly.  From what I understand the changes needed for font awesome 5 are pretty large, too large to hold up 4.3, which is already in the stages of internal testing. 
Thank you