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It has to do with the type of website that is trying to gain traffic. However, for the most part, content sites are pretty frustrated that AI bots are scraping all of their content and then using it to directly answer a searcher's question, without the searcher ever having to visit the website. This is especially tough on content-based websites with high quality, well-researched content that generate revenue through advertising. Money and effort was put into creating the content and it's being served up to searchers for free.

However, for many of these content-based websites, DaniWeb included, we're in a Catch-22 because we still want to rank by search engines, especially sites whose business models rely on almost all traffic being driven from search. In order to appear in Google's search results, we are required to allow Googlebot to scrape all of our content and use it for its AI engine.

Yes, it is. Cache settings are irrelevant? I was really just wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue, and what they did to fix it?

Hello and welcome!

Hello Dwight,

I had already checked out that link, but from what I can gather, Cloudflare does not consider individual resources (such as fonts, images, etc.) as "assets". My understanding is than an asset is the entire HTML file used to generate the page, complete with inline, base64 encoded resources.

As you may know, yuo can customize the error pages in Cloudflare, such as for a WAF block, etc.

For some reason, since the switchover to the new error pages dashboard, the custom font I always use isn't working.

I can see that it converted https://cdn.daniweb.com/font.woff into inline base64 for the @font-face CSS, which sounds about right. However, it's not working for whatever reason, and I have no idea why.

Has anyone heard of anything like this before?

Jim, I have not used Windows in a very, very long time, but can you not configure Windows to store My Documents on D? I'm quite sure that you can, if I remember correctly?

https://superuser.com/questions/1725456/wha-cant-i-move-my-documents-folder

• Microsoft Office (for macOS)

And then to manage DaniWeb:

• PhpStorm
• Remote Desktop Manager
• Viscosity
• Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Given that jQuery is a front-end JavaScript library, its goal is to make writing your front end JavaScript easier and quicker than writing native JavaScript. However, as it is written on top of native JavaScript, there’s nothing it can’t do that native JavaScript ultimately cannot. It just might take a whole bunch more lines of code in native JS. So that’s the allure of jQuery. I don’t suppose that’s changed with jQuery 4.

Why would anyone be hesitant to admit to using jQuery? At the time it was released, it sparked fundamental upgrades to JavaScript.

JQuery was popular when we first started using it. Nowadays, there are much more elegant JavaScript frameworks, and native JavaScript is often faster than jQuery. Than jQuery 3, At least.

I’m excited someone here actually is using jQuery 4. Maybe that means it’s more popular than I thought? I really felt like I was the only one using it lol.

Having a very, very difficult time. My eye is swollen shut and I’m in danger of losing my vision as the shingles rash gets closer and closer to my cornea.

Jim,

My intense headache is because the shingles rash is all over my scalp, my eyebrow, and even all over my eyelid! The intense headache pain was radiating from the area of my scalp where the shingles rash eventually presented.

Luckily, the shingles vaccine is no longer live, so you should definitely get it. (I just happened to have not gotten around to getting it yet, since I was told the risk was very low for people under 50.)

Today is day one trillion of this still unrelenting headache. FINALLY, a diagnosis! I have shingles. Feeling hopeful to begin treatment and start feeling better.

I have a bit of a migraine right now, so I have to put a little more thought into whether these 2 posts should be deleted when my head is a bit clearer.

Unfortunately, I ended up in the ER from an unrelenting migraine that hasn’t let up for 6 days, and is not responding to any medication.

I don’t mean to drop the ball on this thread.

I fail to see the distinction between asking for an opinion versus a suggestion versus any other form of help or assistance.

I understand that you see a distinction when the OP is trying to start a discussion versus asking for advice or help.

However, I don’t understand why you make that distinction in a Q&A discussion forum.

I disagree with that sentiment when it comes to a Q&A forum such as DaniWeb. The very premise of the site is that people ask questions. Quite often, uninformed questions. Sometimes those questions are just asking for your informed opinion as an expert in your field or as someone more informed than they are at the topic at hand. Other people take the time to answer, because the things they have to say go on to help far more than just the question asker or discussion starter, and sometimes spark interesting discussions and perspectives.

I fail to see the distinction between asking for an opinion versus a suggestion versus any other form of help or assistance.

However, where I agree with you is when the ask is strictly AI generated without being backed by any person’s actual struggle, perspective, confusion, etc.

I agree that they might be AI generated, or at least have the help of AI. Sometimes it's hard to tell, and I always want to exercise extreme caution and not delete or infract a post unless I'm 100% confident. I have a bit of a migraine right now, so I have to put a little more thought into whether these 2 posts should be deleted when my head is a bit clearer.

However, I would not discount a new topic because the goal is that whoever replies is expected to do all of the heavy lifting. That's the case in the majority of Q&A topics. Also, what would happen if there was a "Let's discuss!" added to the end of this topic or even this one or this one?

It depends what you’d like to build. If a simple website, you can use HTML and CSS. Want some interactivity? Add JavaScript. Want to create more complex dynamic websites? You will need a backend language such as PHP and a database such as MySQL.

I see you also tagged this topic c++. C++ is a popular language used for non-web related applications such as many games. Is that something that interests you? Or do you want to stick with the web?

As you may know from other threads in these forums, I'm a huge supporter of Upwork. I know that they've chosen to no longer work with anyone in Russia. I believe Toptal still has a presence in Russia, so you could try there. You could also just try Googling for Russian-based freelancers.

Working with inexpensive freelancers is always great, especially if you could support people who are out of work, or no longer able to participate as they once did in the global marketplace/ecosystem, due to their country's politics.

Just as the topic title suggests, any jQuery 4 beta users out there who could let me know what it's like?

The wait for v4 gold release is killing me. Also, please don't make fun of me for being a jQuery user. DaniWeb has been built on jQuery for decades. (Okay, maybe that's not something to brag about.)

Wow, I'm surprised how many people here are primarily Linux users compared to how infrequently our Linux forum gets posted in these days.

Sorry, I don't know what you mean about building a buying persona through DaniWeb?

Please help me come up with a compelling argument to convince my husband to spend an additional $200/month on AT&T Fiber Internet with 5Gbps download / 5 Gbps upload.

It turns out we were able to work with Xfinity's retention team so that the TV plan ended up costing less than we were expecting. We're paying only $100/month more than we were. Considering switching down to 2 Gbps fiber which would pretty much break even on pricing.

I started this thread thinking about James, DaniWeb's sysadmin, who I was surprised to hear uses Windows as his daily driver, despite his proficiency in Linux. I believe he quoted things like Linux not being ideal for gaming.

I'm macOS only these days.

What is large? Are we in the TB range or mere handfuls of GB?

For the sake of argument, let's use my use case and say dozens of gigs and millions of rows.

How often do you need to do this? Is it once a day, once a month, or just once.

For me, the most important is real-time read and write performance to tables with millions of rows that have high concurrency.

Usability trumps aesthetics. Always use a large, readable font size with a high contrast between the font and the background.

Breakdown your method of creating high quality niche related backlinks !!

Yes, please :)

First post from my new (~2 minutes old) 5Gbps fiber connection. :)

Linux has come a long way, but it's still primarily a server OS, correct? How many of you linux fanboys and girls use it as your primary operating system for daily tasks? How does it compare to Windows or macOS in terms of productivity and overall user experience?

Official Bootstrap themes: https://themes.getbootstrap.com/product-category/admin-dashboard/

Hi and welcome!

What interested you in SEO initially? Do you focus more on technical SEO or off-page (backlinks, etc.)?

Hello,

DaniWeb actually uses Bootstrap, but I don’t use any preexisting templates. How much CSS experience do you have? Are you experienced with creating HTML code that uses css classes to piece together something unique?

Bootstrap also has its own template store, if I recall correctly.

Also, Tailwind is a competitor to Bootstrap, so I’m confused what you mean about using them both together. When would you want to do so?

There are good and bad developers in every country. I don’t get the question.

Soooo ... looks like we're getting AT&T Fiber installed this Saturday.

To make a long story short, very shortly after I posted this topic, we began repeatedly having issues with Xfinity service going in and out. Every time we went to report an outage, Xfinity either completely denied that there was an outage and wouldn't let us report it (since it was intermittent and constantly going in and out, so while it was unusable from our end, they were still able to ping our modem), blamed our cable modem/router when meanwhile our TV was out as well, or suddenly had planned maintenance windows. After 2 weeks, they finally acknowledged there was a bigger issue, had another planned maintenance window, and gave us credit for the past 2 weeks of headache. The next day, we had yet another outage. My husband fought with them to get a technician appointment, and when it eventually came around, the tech gave a 15 minutes heads up, and then never showed and ghosted us. My husband then fought to get a second technician appointment, which was supposed to happen yesterday, but they rescheduled (without letting us know) for today. My husband literally told the guy at the door just a few minutes ago, "You were supposed to be here yesterday. No one ever showed up for the appointment. We signed up for AT&T." They're now at the pole trying to see if they can repair our service anyways. Anyways, that's my very long rant.

Use Cloudflare (free plan is available) and plugins such as WP Rocket or WP Engine.

I have a two part question:

How do you balance accessibility and design aesthetics when building a visually complex website? Are there any unconventional approaches that have worked for you?

Secondly, do you give priority to ADA compliance in UX design? Specifically, the WCAG? Personally, I have tried and not been very successful when it came to balancing WCAG requirements with something that still looked appealing and met my UX needs.

What are some best practices for optimizing memory management when working with large datasets?

I am tagging this topic both with php (because that is my language of choice, and the one I work with big data with) as well as c++ (because I know DaniWeb has a large low level c++ community that is well suited to being able to delve into this topic into depth, and because years ago when I focused on c++ myself, I was very focused on efficiency).

The only one I know about is Bitbucket.

What is your use case? Are you looking to host public or private Git repositories?

I have had good experiences with Upwork and Toptal.

What's the most challenging bug you've ever encountered in your programming career, and how did you eventually solve it?

I’ll start. The only one I can recall from the recent past is not realizing that you can’t use a MySQL transaction from within a persistent connection. Here’s when I learned that lesson.

As far as the single biggest threat to my career from a technical perspective, I would have to definitively say the miscommunication between myself and James that lead to our database being hacked in 2015. We are still experiencing the fallout from that today.

How about everyone else?

You’re creating an array of 5 integers and then trying to access the 11th integer in the array (assuming the indexes start at 0). You’re getting an out of bounds error because you’re trying to access an array element that doesn’t exist. You can access arr[0] up through arr[4].

https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/supply_chain_attack_github/

Well that’s coincidental. Doesn’t seem to apply to our repo though because we don’t use tj-actions/changed-files and use private repos. More to say when I’m not on my phone.

Always customize based on search keywords, I suppose? Honestly, I've been out of the PPC game for a few years now.

There's not much there that can't be replicated on a server machine you physically control.

Redundancy in the cloud.

How many people have commit rights on your codebase?
Every contributor has a complete copy of the entire git repo. So even if you lost everything, you can sync with any of your peers and be back up and running to the point of your last push.

Just me. At different points in time over the past 20+ years, it has been a different combination of 3 people. (Narue aka deceptikon helped for a little bit many years ago, but he hasn't been around in years and years. And then there was a freelancer from Upwork that I recruited help from for a little bit a long time ago when I was feeling very overwhelmed with my workload.) These days, it's just me.

I use Github for DaniWeb's code base. I was just wondering though. How secure is it? Would you ever store passwords or other sensitive information in Github (Don't worry. We use .gitignore.)? What about code that could be considered a trade secret, or that type of thing?

Ah, yes, I thought you were talking about posts themselves. Post comments can no longer be edited. (Too many people were replying to post comments and then the person would change their vote and remove the comment.)

Comments are mostly meant to be short things like "I agree with that!" or that type of thing.

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb!

It was a typo I noticed immediately, but I couldn't edit the comment (which could be a useful feature).

You should be able to click the little edit button for up to 10 or 15 minutes (I forget which) after posting in order to correct typos. We don't allow you to edit your post after that because we've run into problems in the past in situations where, for example, a student will post a question, get responses and help, and then want to cover their tracks because their professor told them they can't get online help with the take-home exam, so they go back and edit their first post saying "never mind" or something like that, making the entire thread useless for future visitors and disrespectful to the people who took the time to respond.

However, using it in the same PC, location, connection, etc., provides one of the few relatively reliable tools we have to understand what changes to make and observe their impact.

You are assuming that most people have reliable internet connections that allows them to perform the same Lighthouse test multiple times and get consistent answers. Something else I forgot to mention is that a site like DaniWeb has complicated ads that are different each time the page loads. Some ads are well written and some are a huge drain on all CWV factors, so that also makes it really hard to compare trends with Lighthouse.

Your responses made me to …

I highly doubt anyone here would be able to sell or license to you access to their Apple developer enterprise account (mostly because it would violate their own agreement with Apple), but out of curiosity, why do you need it? The program is designed for specific use cases in which large organizations need to distribute their proprietary app privately to their employees?

So then that begs the question ... may I ask why you were initially hesitant to respond to me the other week? I'm just curious.

Of course, Lighthouse audit results are influenced by factors like your location, connection, and other variables.

That's why I disagreed with you that a Lighthouse audit is always representative of real world users. In my case, the majority of my real world users do not have the same location and/or technology as I do.

I decided last week not to respond to your last post, but, let's be honest, I can't keep myself from responding.

Face it. It's because you just love talking to me.