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Remove Filter  | Late last night, I launched a rewrite of our front end HTML and CSS that is designed to look nearly identical, but is much faster and designed to be more easily updatable and manageable moving forward. Let me know if you spot any bugs or inconsistencies. |
| | DaniWeb Premium is currently $5 per month. You can find details about everything it gives you [here](https://www.daniweb.com/donate/index) Do you think this is too high a price point? At what price point would you be willing to pay? What if it were $1.99? What if it were $3? |
| | Are you planning on getting the vaccine as soon as it becomes available to you, after it’s been a bit more thoroughly vetted, or not at all? Personally, I think it was pushed through just a bit too fast for my liking. I’m holding off until they see what long …  |
| | Over the past week, I’ve made a handful of UI changes across the site. What do you think? Am I on the right track? Is this an improvement?  |
| | Starting September 1st, about 25% of crawl requests started returning 304 Not Modified instead of 200 OK. Prior to that, there were just a small handful of such requests per day. I did not make any code changes that would introduce returning this header. Once I noticed, however, I tried … |
| | I am trying to remove an entire folder of thin content from Google to help me recover from a Panda/EAT-related penalty. I want to keep the content on the site for the benefit of users, but not waste crawl budget or have Google think that we have so many pages …  |
| | What are your favorite hobbies on the computer outside of work and DaniWeb, of course? Personally, I'm a Quora addict. |
| | I've tried absolutely everything!! How can I flush the output buffer in CodeIgniter from within either my controller or my view?? They use some weird double/fake output buffer or something. Grrr! |
| | DaniWeb was written in Codeigniter, and when posting to the forums, we use database transactions that look like this: $this->db->trans_start(); ... insert into the posts table ... ... update the member's post count ... ... update the tags table ... etc $this->db->trans_complete(); On occassion, the error log will show for … |
| | For me, I added some DaniWeb features, completely refactored the CSS, and baked for the first time in my life. My fiancé and I even had a bread bake-off.  |
| | Has anyone started working with PHP 8 yet? Any big backwards compatibility issues? I finally got around to upgrading to php 7! Lol better late than never. |
| | With the launch of Oculus Quest 2 (I have the original Quest), I was wondering if anyone had any favorite games they could recommend. I’ve been having a lot of fun with Tetris Effect somewhat recently. However, I’ve been getting a lot of migraines and have tried to avoid VR …  |
| | Any big plans (while keeping safe)? Just staying home? We aren't doing much of anything. |
| | Is there any news yet as to what the December 2020 core update focused on? What types of sites were the biggest winners vs biggest losers? |
| | Does anyone know of an automated tool that will convert a lot of jQuery code to native javascript? I think the bulky jQuery library is really slowing down my site but manually converting all my code seems very daunting. Ideally there would be something that was so flawless I could … |
| | I'm struggling to upgrade from [CodeMirror 5.5](https://codemirror.net/) to [CodeMirror 6](https://codemirror.net/6/). Previous versions of CM have always been a drop-in Javascript library. Upload the JS files, upload the CSS file, include a `<script>` tag referencing the JS file, and then use the API to make a bunch of calls to incorporate … |
| | In terms of performance, which is the best jQuery CDN to use? The one at cdnjs.cloudflare.com, googleapis.com, jsDelivr, code.jquery.com, etc? |
| | The new Crawl Stats in Google Search Console shows a breakdown of how much googlebot recrawls existing content for refreshing its index, and how much is discovery of new content. Has anyone been working on increasing the rate of new content and seeing that correlate to a linear increase in … |
| | Just a heads up that Google announced they’re running a core algorithm update starting today. There hasn’t been one since May 2020, which is longer than they usually go. The SEO community was expecting one back in September. I’m anxiously staring at Google Analytics to see if we come up … |
| | This is a two part question. Firstly, what are some methods to build backlinks in late 2020 that are __not__ through guest blogging / blog outreach? Secondly, what are some methods to encourage users to share your content on social platforms? |
| | Has anyone come across any test creative websites that graph, chart, or otherwise document trends of Covid cases in a unique or interesting way? |
| | Googlebot is crawling my AMP pages more than they are crawling my desktop pages. I have the appropriate canonical from AMP to desktop and amphtml from desktop to AMP. The desktop version also has a self-referencing canonical. Only canonical pages are in the sitemap. This is a concern because less … |
| | Just a little notification that our markdown parser is now in strict mode. That means that, when posting headings, there has to be a space after the initial hash symbol. In other words: #This won't work # This will work Hopefully it will stop everyone who doesn't properly indent their … |
| | I'm bored! What are some activities to do from home while continuing to shelter in place? |
| | Any dog parents out there? My sheltie just turned 6 months. She's suuuuuch a smart breed that I literally need to keep her mind occupied every moment throughout the day or she gets bored and destructive. She gets all her meals in the form of puzzles. Today has been especially … |
| | Earlier today, I was in need of an easy way to delete files that mached a specific format within a series of folders. For the case of this example, let's say all CSS files. I discovered I could do it with: find . -name '*.css' -delete The . represents the … |
| | I just spent way too long realizing that by setting the boundary property for Twitter Bootstrap popover Javascript to viewport (I believe it's parent element by default), it gets rid of the flickering issue I was having with popovers triggered on hover. If anyone else is having that problem, this … |
| | Are you a student studying programming from home? Are you an employee who is working from home for the time being? Or are you a self-employed freelancer? Has your work shifted during this time? |
| | There was a huge fluctuation in the SERPS yesterday that left a lot of people baffled by the unannounced algorithm ... until Google officially announced it was a bug that was rolled out. Unlike just about everyone who commented on WW, SEW, etc., I actually fared well from it, until … |
| | I need some quick regex help with matching the same word twice in a pattern. For example, I'm trying to match on the PHP code: `if (isset($foo) AND $foo)` or `if (isset($bar) AND $bar)` where `$foo` and `$bar` are any valid variable name. However, I don't want to match on … |
| | Has anyone read about any studies, or has any anecdotal evidence, that might demonstrate that detailed schema.org/Person markup about an author improves the authoritativeness of an article or tutorial in Google's eyes? |
| | I'm noticing Googlebot is not respecting my robots.txt. I'm seeing Googlebot's user agent crawling pages that have been in my robots.txt file for many months. Some of them are showing up in GSC as "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt" with Last crawled dates indicated as recent as yesterday. Additionally, I'm … |
| | Google search console flagged a couple of my AMP pages with the error: Error in required structured data element When I use the URL inspection tool, it says: Linked AMP version is valid with warnings Error in required structured data element But in the HTML section of the crawled page, … |
| | This question specifically relates to PHP's Memcached library when specifying a server key and adding multiple keys at once. **Question one**: Is it true that PHP's setMultiByKey() doesn't take advantage of the memcached server's native support for setting multiple keys at once, but that the logic is on PHP's side … |
| | Is it appropriate to noindex AMP pages whose desktop canonicals are noindexed? Currently, my valid but low-quality pages are noindexed. They point to an amphtml version, and that AMP page is noindexed as well.  |
| | Do you think that the forum software that's used makes a difference for a community? Suppose, for example, forum software all has the same options available. And we're talking about the same community of people. For a forum visitor, does seeing powered by vBulletin strike a softer note than seeing … |
| | So sorry for brief periods of the CSS and Javascript files not being properly loaded earlier today. However, on the bright side, we now have CSS/JS versioning properly set up again, which means I'm going to stop asking you guys to clear your browser cache whenever I release a new … |
| | Sorry about the downtime today!! https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/09/ibm-cloud-suffers-prolonged-outage/ |
| | As of this morning, the Speed Report (Experimental) in Google Search Console has been replaced by a more robust Core Web Vitals report. It still is broken up into a Mobile and Desktop version. However, instead of just monitoring FCP (First Contentful Paint) and FID (First Input Delay), it now … |
| | Do you still use reCAPTCHA or something homemade? For us, we use jQuery to inject a hidden form field upon form submission that sends a little time sensitive and cookie sensitive string that we validate on the server side. I’m always curious to know what everyone else is doing.  |
| | Should I be noindexing or fully blocking search result pages from my robots.txt? |
| | We had a bug a little while back where we were accessing an old database for the GeoIP API. That meant that, for users whose geolocation were mapped from their IP address, it was incorrect/unknown for IP subnets not in the database. Now, 1-2 years later, can we go back … |
| | Ever wonder what DaniWeb was like way back in the day? Well now you don't have to guess. Forums and tags have a new filter in the dropdown to list all Archived topics. |
| | How do you handle your link discoverability when also using infinite scroll. As we know, Google has been ignoring link rel=prev/next for years. A lot of my older content is showing up with no internal links. I do have HTML page navigation but it’s hidden with `display:none` |
| | Is there an advantage to submitting my AMP pages to my Google sitemap? I am using `<link rel="amphtml" ...` but I was wondering if submitting them lead to faster discovery? My AMP pages are starting to show up in Google Search Console Coverage for "Indexed, not submitted in sitemap" However, … |
| | My code has a query that looks like: INSERT INTO table VALUES (...) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE id = LAST_INSERT_ID(id), ... id is a PRIMARY KEY. My question is that I can't for anything remember why I have id = LAST_INSERT_ID(id). I wrote it years ago and it's not commented. … |
| | I started using Cloudflare yesterday, and I must say, I'm incredibly impressed with them. They have a pretty well-rounded featureset that goes above and beyond just being a static CDN. |
| | I'm using the following code to verify that an email address has a valid DNS (otherwise, we consider the email invalid). $domain = substr($email, strrpos($email, '@') + 1); $isValid = checkdnsrr($domain, 'MX') || checkdnsrr($domain, 'A'); However, today it just flagged nearly all @gmail.com and @yahoo.com emails as invalid. Obviously the … |
| | How did you fare in this week’s core update? Losses for us. |
| | How can I use jQuery's [.stop()](https://api.jquery.com/stop/) to stop *all* animations and not just for one specific selector. In my use case, I don't know the element being animated. Does this function bubble? Can I do something like `$(document).stop(true, false);` ?? |
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