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@Matt, if we've blocked all profiles in robots.txt, isn't it better to add a robots meta tag, e.g. noindex, follow? Because Google wastes time indexing these profiles anyway, but does not display information about them.

Hopefully this is because the crawl efficiency improvements allowing Google to focus on the new content and not be distracted by changes to profiles, etc.

After updating to 4.6.8, after 2 days, I noticed that my topics are indexed much faster than before. Previously, the topic was indexed for up to a week, and now it is already in the index after a few hours.

After updating to 4.6.8, after 2 days, I noticed that my topics are indexed much faster than before. Previously, the topic was indexed for up to a week, and now it is already in the index after a few hours.

After updating to 4.6.8, after 2 days, I noticed that my topics are indexed much faster than before. Previously, the topic was indexed for up to a week, and now it is already in the index after a few hours.

After updating to 4.6.8, after 2 days, I noticed that my topics are indexed much faster than before. Previously, the topic was indexed for up to a week, and now it is already in the index after a few hours.

After updating to 4.6.8, after 2 days, I noticed that my topics are indexed much faster than before. Previously, the topic was indexed for up to a week, and now it is already in the index after a few hours.

Thanks for the feedback 🙂

We do use canonical tags heavily. However, the "do=getNewComment" style links cannot be canonicalised because they are just 301 redirects to another page.

Canonical links have a place, but they still eat up crawl budget because Google has to index the page to see the tag and then decide what to do with it.

We certainly are not telling Google "get off my site" - we are just strongly hinting to Google what we see as valuable parts of the site, and what we do not. Things like profile pages, redirect links and so on just eat up the budget for almost no return.

What are you using to monitor that metric? It generally takes weeks for Google to adjust the index after a change like this, so I'd be surprised if it was impacting page views unless there were errors, etc.

Great news! 

@Matt Many thanks, the link to the updated tutorial helped me adding a few extra lines we didn't have yet, and we also ended up with a few lines that are not listed in the tutorial, and I will open a new topic in the community to discuss them.

@Matt Really great, we really appreaciate the incredible effort put into improving this. Just one suggestion, to leave a way for us to add custom lines to the robots.txt in addition the optimized version (from the screenshot above, I got the impression that we can only select between optimized vs custom). So this options would create the optimized robots.txt + add the extra lines we configure manually. Because we have some custom directives to slow down or ban some bad crawlers that we wish to keep.

OMG! I love this new function. I hope i can receive more visits now after add this new feature. Thanks a lot.

These are the types of updates that make me feel I made the right decision switching to Invision for my sites. I'm an SEO by trade, so baking this functionality into the software, and continuing to improve it, are essential for me.
Thank you!

Great improvement...

Wowy! Love this new update!

Oh my! 😱
This is very impressive!
Thank you so much for such an incredible update. Amazing!

This is crucial for presence in search results. Thanks for addressing it! 

As the functionality stands now you get a running list of Stock Replies that you have to scroll through to "hopefully find one that is appropriate for the area you are in currently.

It would be nice if IPS created categories that you populate in the ACP and then choose on the front end to find a set of Stock Replies pertinent to a particular use case.

 
Once you click on a category it would bring up a list of relevant Stock Replies you could choose from.
Access to each category would be set in the ACP and would only appear on the frontend if the user had the appropriate permission.   
 

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Hello Dears
It's great to have an almost certain timeline for future releases, as I've already discussed with Jordan.
For example, we now know that version 4.6.7 is scheduled to be released in the first half of October.
Or, for example, we implicitly know that version 4.7.0 is scheduled to be released on Jordan's birthday on 2022.4.7! 🎉
If there is a sidebar widget (or any other better idea) on the forums page that indicates the release date of newer versions, it would be great, and community leaders can plan for that.
For example, pay attention to this design (sidebar widget) :

Thanks for reading, Sajjad. 😉

Looks nice, can be very useful. 👍

Looks nice, can be very useful. 👍

UUhhhaaa. One more resource is dead!
🙂

Yes, MySQL 8 was supported in 4.5 (it may have been 4.4 actually, I don't recall). PHP 8 support was added in 4.6.0.

I watched and found out some new things. However, I missed some curiosities, statistics or funny stories, but for the first interview it was fine.
Charles seemed a little shy at first. 🙂 One small note, fewer questions about LGBTQ and more about IPS itself 👍
So who's next? Maybe @Matt? 
How do you deal with nulled software? what's your opinion on this? Why is everyone in IPS using a Macbook? :D How many people work at Invision Power Services?