Ibai

A few questions:
1. What part of the root_library.js used on mobile?
2. Is it possible for a mobile to use a small root_library.js with what is needed.
Why I ask - I do the test. From the source code of my site I created an html file.
I removed the  root_library.js in this html file.
The PSI test mobile loading speed has increased by over 15 points and at least for my test I am reaching levels of 94-96 commensurate with desktop levels normally tests.
When loading this html file with my phone - everything looks good.
thanks

Review data used to be valid for Article object types in structured data, but Google has since changed their mind and no longer allows you to include review data for articles. We are looking into this.

In a topics list item contains 2 links useful, one is the title (orange) , another one is the last post (orange). 
1. Please add a little background (or whatever you think is better as human design) to these elements, the purpose is have these elements as visible buttons to touch or click it in this Mobile age. 
(sometimes new users just touching the item wherever because the app habit use) 
Green arrows, these elements cause confusion to new users, when they touch the item card sometimes these links just take these users to a wrong place that is not what they want, sometimes old user happen too this accident. 
2. Disable these unused redirect links that cause accidentally confusion. 
**** I think these 2 issues mentioned is a UI design problem of entire IPS. 
 

Hi! I actually think it's important to show the pagination so someone seeing the topic for the first time can grasp the magnitude of what they're about to walk into. 😇 
Love your mockups 👏 I like that it simplifies things. 

I agree. But the mobile view needs additional changes.
1. There is no need to display pagination, and buttons "2", "3" and "4" make no sense at all. Seriously, who will click these buttons and why? 🤦🏻‍♂️

2. The words "replies", "view" and "updated" take up a lot of space and don't fit on one line in many localizations. They should be replaced with icons so as not to interfere with viewing and to save space.
Before:

After:

Like myself, I managed to pull it off... Marginally but did it... I've expanded more ads on the thread listing page and the forum post pages too. Still managed to squeeze through barely making it all fit. Ugh!

I'll use any web based test tool from the outside. I can't really use my browser developer tools being my local internet here is slow. So the scores are always a touch lower and never quite reach the mark ever. Now web based test like GT Metrix works well being it like any customer coming to the site.
 
 

It is recommended to output webp files in a <picture> tag instead of an <img> tag, which supports specifying multiple versions. That's something we'd have to take into account.
Also, ios14 added support apparently: https://css-tricks.com/webp-image-support-coming-to-ios-14/
I found that we have an open internal suggestion discussing this already so I've updated it. Thanks!

What things are you looking for support for specifically? Are you just meaning to display webp images as images, instead of attachments?
Obviously this is something we can look into too, but if you have a list of areas/problems specifically it might be a good starting point.
(For the record, recent releases of GD do support webp, as does ImageMagick, so server-side technology is not a hindrance)

I would recommend blocking unwanted traffic at the server level. By the time the request makes it to PHP, a lot of unnecessary overhead has already occurred if your intention is to block the traffic. You can already ban by IP address if you wish, and most legitimate spiders will advertise the IP address ranges used by their bots if you wish to do that, but again...this is better served at the server/firewall level.

Being a fairly large community with quite a lot of traffic (in our country, relative to other site/communities in our niche) we started encouraging members to use our site as a platform for their own independent content.

So herein lies the question - we have statistics for forums, for clubs, even for the gallery. Why not have statistics for blogs? I've looked for plugins but there aren't any.
something like a youtube creators dashboard that will allow members who have blogs to view simple stats like total & average post views, total & average comments, view trend graph (hourly/daily) high/low activity hours and such, that way they make better informed decisions about their content. such simple stats can be extrapolated and used to learn when to post, what to write about or how long should the posts be etc.
feel free to add those statistics to 
If not, or at least in the meanwhile, we'll settle for a view count on the post "blocks" for now.
Thank you for reading this, and for totally agreeing with everything I wrote and working tirelessly to implement every single feature I've requested (and more) as soon as possible.
I've even added a design idea for the icon. you're welcome (No. of course I'm serious):

I don't mind doing ACP upgrades in the staging servers (for pre-deployment testing), but don't want to manually upgrade the production servers. Automating this process seems like a good thing to do to eliminate any downtime and to minimize the chance of error.

Same thing here. Google demands speed but is the main responsible for low core vitals. This is ironic.

Never mind I figured it out...
Here is what I replaced it with and Now I'm done some testing and got the CLS value down to 0.1 or lower on some pages. Also added the centering CSS code to center the ads in the layout.
/* GOOGLE AD CODE FOR RESPONSIVE ADS */ #ipsLayout_mainArea .adsbygoogle { width: 320px; height: 150px; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } @media (min-width:500px) { #ipsLayout_mainArea .adsbygoogle { width: 480px; height: 300px; } } @media (min-width:800px) { #ipsLayout_mainArea .adsbygoogle { width: 780px; height: 300px; } } @media (min-width:1050px) { #ipsLayout_mainArea .adsbygoogle { width: 1040px; height: 300px; } }  

What would you do when posts are deleted? Renumber the posts so that "check out post 4 with the answer" no longer points to the actual answer (it's now post 3) - or leave gaps in the numbering so it's obvious when content has been merged, deleted or moved?

This is why I get all my Spears news from weightedrespiration.com.
Register to view, turn off your adblocker, and you've exceeded your free limit of things are maddening. Throw in a "this website wants to send your notifications" and I start setting things on fire.

We store the post content as already generated HTML, which means the same content is served to members and guests. In order to accomplish what is being asked here our options are limited, as such. We could in theory...
Link to a script that serves the image (instead of to the actual image), and let that script serve an error/alternative "no access" image to guests. Main con: you lose the benefit of using a CDN (such as Cloudfront) to serve your images. Use javascript to provide an alternative experience for guests. Main con: simply disabling javascript circumvents the "protection", so it's not really that useful if you truly want to block guests from seeing the images. Store different content for guests and members. Main con: you duplicate the bulk of your database, and all existing content would need to be rebuilt on upgrade. Realistically there's not a great way to handle what you are asking for when you factor in other considerations as above.

After researching about this, browsers have now native lazy loader. We only need to edit the templates to add:
loading="lazy" To all img tags.
I edited the following templates:
core > front > global
reactionBlurb
reactionLog
reactionOverview
reactionTabs
reputation
userPhoto
userPhotoFromData
This enabled lazy loading for user photos and reactions, and the "Defer offscreen images" warning from Google Lighthouse is now gone! 🙂
(I also made the same edit in my cms custom templates)

It really works guys!
Before (unmodified template)

After add lazy-loading attribute to

Thanks for reporting your findings - we'll take a look at the suggested change. 🙂 

What are the chances you are a resource or you would be willing to teach this to me like I'm five? 😀
I actually know the basic ins and outs of all this, but the learning curve on this part seems to be significant. I have three advertisers: adsense, Amazon, and a third party. I don't know how to put them into admanager, rotate, and do the things described in this topic. I have always just pasted static code.

I was going to ask exactly this feature Today. I am willing to be able to setup a side menu with custom widgets for each subforum. Each sidebar for each category/forum topic.

Wow that's brilliant I did not have that button added to the Editor. Thanks! It just does what I was asking for 🙂 
Thanks Ryan!

There is an editor button for that.

Still desperately needed.
We have some auxiliary databases that are only used for database relationship in other databases. The records in such databases do not make sense standalone. I would like to exclude those auxiliary databases from sitemap. They have a lot of records that do not really contain any helpful information on its own. 

You haven't missed a setting, but I like this feature idea.