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Hello! Welcome! What brings you to these parts?

I met my husband on a dating app. However, this isn’t really the place to ask this kind of question. This is a programming forum and the discussion revolves around building a dating app, not using one. Also, this discussion is 16 years old.

Renting it out might be a viable solution for jkon. Not so in my case, where my mom would need enough for a down payment on a place in California.

As for that Japanese housing marketplace, without being familiar with Japan and/or the neighborhoods, there's no knowing if any of those homes are in good neighborhoods or what condition they are in.

The same with the US. There's certainly a shortage of affordable homes here in the Bay Area.

First is reciprocal dealing, meaning that Google forces companies like Chegg to supply our proprietary content in order to be included in Google’s search function.

Basically what I've been saying ;)

Why did you tag this thread 'gaming' and 'virtual-reality'? I changed the tag to finance, which is the closest tag I can think of that would fit, I suppose.

I am in a bit of a similar boat. I lived in a very large house with my parents in New York from the age of 2 until I was 27, at which point I bought my own co-op with DaniWeb money about a mile down the road. My entire extended family has remained in or around New York City for 4 generations.

When I was 36, I moved to California, and I now own my house out here. It's a small starter home because Silicon Valley prices are insane. However, I love it here and plan to stay here forever. I'm currently trying to sell my place in New York.

My dad has since passed away and my mom bought a condo in a high rise in Florida, which she loves because she has lots of friends there now.

However, depending on how my health journey goes, if my husband and I end up starting a family out here (which is hopefully the plan), my mom would want to be out here with us for a large portion of the year to spend time with her grandchild. (I'm an only child, so there are no siblings scattered around anywhere else.)

However, my mom wouldn't be able to afford to buy even a very tiny studio out here without having to …

This just showed up for me in Search Engine Roundtable.

I think perhaps we are misunderstanding each other.

Of course, it's important to not introduce any breaking functionality for any percentage of users.

However, what is the harm in adding loading="lazy" to an existing web app? 96% of users will experience a performance improvement. The other 4% of users will have no negative consequences, and everything will be exactly the same for them. That 4% will not lose any functionality. That 4% will not experience any UI/UX consequences or see any new bugs. What is the reason to not do it? I'm not understanding.

On "Can I Use," IE was supposedly "dead" in 2013

I'm not sure what you mean by that? I see it saying that IE is still in use by 0.4% of web users. It is up to you to determine if that is an acceptable loss. I don't think they make that determination for you because, as pointed out in my previous post, a performance optimization is entirely different than breaking functionality or affecting the UI/UX.

The reason why I disagree with you is because I do not see a reason to not use a performance optimization that will benefit 96% of web users, and degrade gracefully and cause absolutely no side-effects for the remaining 4%. What is the harm in using it in production now?

I especially disagree with you because this is a performance optimization. As a completely unrelated example, if you could implement some low hanging fruit to improve the CLS for only 25% of users, and the remaining 75% remained completely unchanged and affected, why wouldn't you do that? 25% means a better experience for at least 1 out of every 4 users. The alternative, not using it, is a better experience for 0 out of every 4 users.

I think this is a completely different discussion than a web app where functionality breaks or provides an inconsistent user experience depending upon the end-user's tech stack. That's a different beast entirely. In that case, yes, you absolutely need to support bugs that affect 4% of your users.

The loading="lazy" HTML attribute-value pair was introduced in 2019–2020, so I would guess it will be safe to use after 2030–2035, except if you don't care about internet visitors and are targeting an intranet of a company where you control the browsers and their versions.

According to Can I Use the attribute currently works for over 96% of all web users across both desktop and mobile browsers. For the others, there's no harm having it and it just won't do anything.

That means you shouldn't use lazy loading ATF (above the fold) in most cases.

I would agree with this. That is why, in my previous post, I mentioned the AJAX technique to improve perceived performance should only be used when content is below-the-fold.

I'm happy that SEO these days has nothing to do with the shady tactics of the past and is more about the quality of the web app and the message it conveys.

Very much agreed!!

As someone who has made a career out of working with ad agencies, and has 3 patents on data mining user behavior within social platforms, that all sounds absolutely abhorrent.

Hi and welcome!! What got you interested in computer vision?

AI generated content is very obvious to me, as well. However, DaniWeb gets a ton of AI generated submissions every day and I am looking for a reliable way of blocking it without having to delete the posts after-the-fact, and also without having to stick all new posts into a moderation queue.

I’m nervous about this upcoming earnings call scheduled for in a few days. At the last one, they reported great numbers and the stock still dipped.

Also, on another note, being hit hard by RDDT. I bought it about a year ago, for context.

So, a Spaceballs fan?

Oh, of course! That and Galaxy Quest. :-P

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb! What is it that you do at your company? Do you personally do any of the web/app development?

Hi Jason! Welcome to DaniWeb. What genre of movies are you into? I’m all about sci-fi/fantasy that makes you think. After sitting in a chair for 2 hours, I want to end up feeling like I got something out of it. It made me think about something in a different way, etc. My husband likes dumb comedy and it drives me crazy.

Oh, I’m down at least 5%.

Actually, I just had another thought. Ever been to Warrior Forum?

Thank you for your guidance, but I am already a member at Bhw. Wouldn't it be useful for the site to open such a marketplace in terms of ideas?

DaniWeb doesn't really cater to that type of stuff. Long, long ago we had a webmaster marketplace, but sites like Flippa became much more popular, and eventually we got rid of it in one of our site overhauls. BHW is the only site I could think of that caters to what you're looking for. If they don't offer it, I don't know who else might.

2-21-2025 saw a lot of other tumbles.

I'm well aware. My entire portfolio tanked.

Oh, but on the heels of the Deepseek tumble!

Inquiring minds want to know: For the sake of my pocketbook, do you think Nvidia stock is slated to rebound after today’s disastrous day? I know the earnings call is in just a few days.

Seriously!? in what scenario is this a good thing?

I’m not saying it’s a good thing, and I’m not saying it’s the type of thing we cater to here. But it’s not against the law, and there is a very popular marketplace that exchanges that kinda stuff. So I directed the OP to it.

I stand corrected. :)

I just came across this website that keeps a pulse on how much traffic websites in the wild get, and overlays that with announced and unannounced Google algorithm updates.

Give it a whirl.

We don't offer that here at DaniWeb. You might want to check out BlackHatWorld for that kind of marketplace.

Not only does that sound annoying, but it sounds a bit like the reason why I created DaniWeb in the first place.

Basically DaniWeb was founded out of my frustration that there were sooo many niche forums out at the time, and I felt like just to put a website together, I had to use JustLinux.com to learn about the OS, WebHostingTalk.com to learn how to host it, PHPFreaks.com to learn about the php side, DBForums.com for the database side, SitePointForums.com and WebmasterWorld.com for the marketing and SEO. Every community has its own set of rules and nuances, and I wanted to create one unified place where you can learn about all of the technologies you use together in a consistent environment with the same community culture and familiar faces.

In what way do you find forums less toxic than social media platforms?

The OP was confused. He meant JavaScript, not Java.

Also ... members can only edit posts for a few minutes after they've initially been created.

I think the biggest use cases include buying clothing/eyewear from the comfort of my home, and seeing furniture I'm considering purchasing set up in my home.

Hello,

The easiest way to implement image lazy loading is by simply adding the loading="lazy" HTML attribute to <img> image tags. That will not load the image until it is about to come into view in the web browser as the user scrolls down the page.

Something else that we do here at DaniWeb is to use the async and defer attributes on <script> HTML tags, so that they load external Javascript files asynchronously without blocking the parsing and rendering of the HTML page. Use defer if your Javascript file requires the HTML DOM to be ready, or relies on other Javascript files, and use async if you want the Javascript file to be executed the moment that it's finished downloading.

The goal, of course, is if you can't do everything within your power to make your site load as fast as possible, then focus on the user experience and perceived performance to the end user. An example of that is to use AJAX techniques to load portions of the webpage, that might be a little more computationally intensive, for example, with Javascript after the rest of the page has already been loaded for the user. Especially if the content would otherwise delay generating the HTML, and it's content that is below-the-fold (aka not visible on the first screen-fold).

Considering Google BERT was integrated into Google searches 7 years ago, strategies shouldn't really be evolving and adapting nowadays. However, I get what you're saying. Traditional keyword-based techniques stopped being effective in the early 2000s. Of course, you should always prioritize content quality and user intent.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content

So the gist is there is no menthod to check the algorithmic penalty from google...one can understand from ranking and traffic change on their website

Yeah, that's correct.

I'm not entirely sure what gediminas is referring to, but there are services out there such as Zoho Mail, SendGrid, ConstantContact, Mailchimp, Hostinger, etc. which, for the most part, cost money (some are rather inexpensive), but the benefit to using them is that they ensure you're never sending emails to non-existant email addresses, email addresses that bounce, and that emails always make it to their intended recipient.

If you're not getting any PHP errors, it's possible that your outgoing mail server is not configured properly on your web server.

rproffitt, alexxx does not have the ability to edit raw HTML within his Instagram bio. Instead, the link has to point to a URL that uses deep linking to redirect the final destination URL to open in Safari. I am not familiar enough with mobile development to know how to do this, but, yes, it does involve writing code.

I also want to point out that it's against Instagram's terms of service. If a mod finds out that you're doing it, your account will be banned. The risk is on you, I suppose.

I’m not familiar with it, but it’s not something I would do, and certainly not something I would pay for.

Users expect a certain consistent behavior. For example, users expect links to look a certain way, buttons to look a certain way, new webpages to open within an app they’re using a certain way.

When experiences differ from those expectations, users get frustrated and confused. What might seem like a good idea to you might end up creating confusion, or a bad first impression, for the end-user.

Hi and welcome!!

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb!

They don't, so they have no SEO value, but they still show up for all of the members, and that's worth something as well.

Additionally, once you earn at least 15 member reputation points, your member profile becomes indexable by Google and other search engines. You can include a naked link within your bio in your member profile.

Hi and welcome!! I, as well, have a lot of web design and development experience. I wrote DaniWeb, after all ;)

I'd love to help with any questions you may have. Feel free to post, and hope to see you come back. I know it's been a few weeks since your post.

Hi and welcome!!

That sounds really interesting. Did you ever launch the SDK?

I am a bit in the same boat as you as DaniWeb Connect has an API but I have been really struggling getting it adopted. Sorry I can't be more help to you directly.

Sorry for the late response to this, but yes, the purpose of the FB pixel is to track the performance of your Facebook ads.

Here's some more information about it: https://www.facebook.com/business/tools/meta-pixel

For me, it's a forum for forum owners called Forum Promotion, which gave me the idea to start this thread.

Hello! Nice to meet you.

Yeah, ChatGPT sorta came onto the scene out of nowhere a couple of years ago and now it almost feels like it's taking over the world.

Hello Stephen! It's very nice to meet you.

Good question. We have multiple web servers that are load balanced, and only 2 database servers in a master/slave setup. I know there are ways to shard the database so you could essentially put different records of a table on different servers, but I personally have no experience with that. I am pretty sure you can shard by row or by column.

We also have a Memcached pool (for caching) where we specify the server we want to use by passing in a server key into all gets and sets. We make sure that all cached items that need to be fetched on a particular page are fetched at once, and always from a single server. That seems to work well for us.

It's a firewall, right?