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Please re-enable Google indexing of this forum

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Google is far better at finding what you need than this forum's inbuilt function. I find it odd, anyway, as you'd have thought you'd want as much exposure of the game in search results

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Posted (edited)

If you know how to use the filter methods on this forum there's no reason to use Google.

 

I've never had a problem finding what I'm looking for.

Edited by Kinganon

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4 minutes ago, Kinganon said:

If you know how to use the filter methods on this forum there's no reason to use Google.

 

I've never had a problem finding what I'm looking for.

 

This does absolutely not suffice as a workaround for all the functionality that was lost when the index searching stopped working. I think you and Derp come from two very different utility camps on this - And I'm in the one Derp's in, and agree completely with his point.

 

I understand that there are valid reasons for disabling it, but man: The forum search function is very lacking and frustrating, and I've missed the google searching basically every day since it stopped working.

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Google is indeed 50x better for finding something than the search function built in 

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19 minutes ago, Kinganon said:

If you know how to use the filter methods on this forum there's no reason to use Google.

except you know 

 

regex support

filtering out words/phrasing

no "please wait x seconds" if you mistype, click a filter, go to the next page

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6 minutes ago, wurmontheline said:

except you know 

 

regex support

filtering out words/phrasing

no "please wait x seconds" if you mistype, click a filter, go to the next page

I don't see why you'd need regular expressions to filter posts in such a small forum.

 

The please wait x seconds is indeed very annoying.

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4 minutes ago, Kinganon said:

I don't see why you'd need regular expressions to filter posts in such a small forum.

 

You don't see it, but there are very many of us that do - And who used it regularly back when it was still an option. It is perfectly fine that you don't see a need for it, and that you wouldn't use it even if it was an option. But it also does not affect you in any tangible way that we do wish to be able use Google index searching for the forums again.

Edited by Aeris

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How odd. Did we ever get confirmation on why it was done? Whether it was intentional or not? 

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This forum is still formatted from 2008, of course Google is a better option.

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I remember Wurm talking about blocking Bots from accessing the Wikipedia to improve its performance. Did they do the same to the forums too?

I also prefer to use a Google search over Wurm's.

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+1

or Improve the intra search. 
Search performance was better in the 90’ with Altavista. 
come on now!

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people can't find posts complaining about the game if they can't find posts period
 

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On 7/22/2024 at 7:09 PM, Sklo:D said:

+1

+1

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On 7/22/2024 at 6:58 PM, Frol said:

people can't find posts complaining about the game if they can't find posts period
 

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people wont find anything related to the game and it's genre, players, etc.... if it's all hidden into discord instead
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It was disabled due to performance reasons, as some of the web crawlers (not Google but similar) were overwhelming the forum at times.

We intend to move both the forum and wiki to a better host soon, and with that we can revisit the bot policy, including allowing in Google crawlers.

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9 hours ago, Samool said:

It was disabled due to performance reasons, as some of the web crawlers (not Google but similar) were overwhelming the forum at times.

We intend to move both the forum and wiki to a better host soon, and with that we can revisit the bot policy, including allowing in Google crawlers.

Thank you, an answer is much appreciated!

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Pages from this forum are now showing up in Google searches again. Yeah!

Edited by Gwiz

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19 hours ago, Gwiz said:

Pages from this forum are now showing up in Google searches again. Yeah!

Awesome!

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Why give Google the ability to strip all forum contents to train their software for free, and also try to link identities cross-site to personally identify Wurm players for advertising purposes?

 

Better to ban all crawlers permanently.  If the forum search function needs to be improved (which it does) then do that.

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9 hours ago, Teggs said:

Why give Google the ability to strip all forum contents to train their software for free, and also try to link identities cross-site to personally identify Wurm players for advertising purposes?

 

Better to ban all crawlers permanently.  If the forum search function needs to be improved (which it does) then do that.

Because people use google to google their problems or the game itself, most new players first found wurm through the forum.

Taking the forum out of the google also takes away visibility of the game and its community from the web.

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