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It depends on the purpose of the article. Short content works when people want a quick answer to something. Long content works when people want a lot more in-depth information about a particular topic. You should always have a target audience in mind when writing content.

It would be very helpful if you could not upgrade Chrome for now, while we debug this, since you're currently the only known person who is experiencing the bug.

Please reply here:

https://www.daniweb.com/community-center/meta-daniweb/threads/543158/editor-crashes-browser

Eek! I’m so sorry. We upgraded our editor last week and I suppose it’s possible a bug was introduced in my code?

Can you please start a new thread in the Meta DaniWeb forum explaining exactly what you were clicking on, etc. just before it crashes, along with your browser and operating system. I don’t really want to conflate this thread with debugging DaniWeb.

Hello and welcome!

Is anyone keeping up with the Chegg lawsuit?

Hello and welcome. Thanks for signing up.

I hadn't considered that you could host Daniweb from your home. That would certainly make it more convenient.

While it might technically be possible to host DaniWeb from my home, it would not be practical. Firstly, I did some research since yesterday, and it seems against the AT&T terms of service to have servers for a for-profit business running from a home plan. A small blog would fall under the radar, but they would likely shut us down for the amount of traffic that we get.

Secondly, we currently have a rack at a datacenter in Texas. We would need to ship all of our equipment to my home, and then find room in our small home for a server rack.

Thirdly, we would lose the advantage(s) of being in a big datacenter. Redundant uplink connections, etc. The datacenter is also minutes from where blud, our sysadmin of 20 years, lives, so that if anything were to go wrong, he could go there in person and fix it.

We also have the problem of very frequent blackouts where we live, that typically last 2-3 days at a time. After dealing with it for 2 years in a row since moving here, on the 3rd year, we finally installed solar last year. After spending so much money on a solar array and batteries, there has been only one blackout since, lasting for all of 12 minutes. (Of course, right?)

So, all in all, not very practical or realistic to …

Oh, it looks as if the tutorial was for the old DaniWeb API that no longer exists. The DaniWeb Connect API is also OAuth-based and has some of its own documentation.

And you need 5Gbps because...?

Awaiting suggestions.

In NY, I had Spectrum cable at home, and Verizon FiOS fiber at my office.

In CA, I started with Xfinity cable. Just before COVID, we moved into a townhouse that had a spotty connection that became unbearably inconsistent. Apple ended up paying for us to have AT&T fiber because my husband is an engineering manager there, and they needed their employees to have reliable Internet connections during work from home orders. We had a really shitty experience with Xfinity customer support and a really excellent experience with AT&T.

We have since moved and AT&T wasn't available, so we went back to Xfinity cable. AT&T just became in our neighborhood available and I'd love to go back to it.

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.

We currently have Comcast Xfinity cable with 1.2Gbps download and something like 35 Mbps upload. Xfinity has a 2Gbps plan we could potentially upgrade to. I'm not willing to cut the cord and get rid of cable TV. That means that we would be keeping a Comcast account just for a TV plan.

I would guess it just has to do with taxes and/or laws in your region that Facebook's legal/accounting/business divisions do not want to involve themselves with right now for one reason or another. I don't believe there is a way around it, unless you were to connect to Facebook using a proxy server and spoof your location. However, that would definitely be against Facebook's terms of service, and I would not do it for a shop, because you're likely to not end up receiving any payments. Why not set up something such as Shopify instead? What type of shop are you looking to set up?

The Markdown editor that we use here at DaniWeb is called CodeMirror and we've been using it for forever. The other day, I noticed some bugs in the editor toolbar that we use, which is based on the CodeMirror API. (The one that allows the buttons for bold, italic, etc.)

Over the past few days, I've gone ahead and refactored the code for the editor toolbar and fixed some bugs as well. I decided to publish my work since it's pretty heavily commented.

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.

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.

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?

So, a Spaceballs fan?

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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!!

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.

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?

I have found it’s really hard to create Reddit backlinks unless you already have a really strong reputation in the Sub. If it sticks though, it’s definitely valuable!

Olu, what’s your trick with Reddit?

Sounds more than a little heavy-handed but I can sympathize.

It stems from a place of just being very proud of the work he does (he leads the team that is responsible for battery life across all Apple devices), and wanting his household to use the products that he took an active role in working on.

Unfortunately, when I moved to the Bay Area, I left my Dell workstation tower back in NY. When I moved across the country, I was renting for the first bunch of years, and was just using a Macbook hooked up to external LG monitors. It wasn't until we bought a house a handful of years later, and settled down here, that I brought the majority of my belongings over. At that time, I brought over my well loved Dell, only to be sorely disappointed that it was now outdated, and my recently purchased Macbook M1 was more performant for my daily tasks. Soooo, I gave the Dell to blud, because I knew he would be able to make really good use out of it.

That was in the mid 1990's so it's a bit fuzzy now.

Nonono. You must be mistaken. DaniWeb was founded in 2002.

I used to have a Dell Precision workstation that I loved. My husband, however, is an engineering manager at Apple and he declared that we have an Apple-only household. Alas, the Dell started really showing its age, and my Macbook is actually more performant. I ended up giving the Dell to DaniWeb's sysadmin, blud, who promptly upgraded nearly every component except for the motherboard and CPUs.

Inquiring minds want to know. What are you working with?

I currently have an Apple M1 Max 14" 2021 model.

I think people are not understanding what I'm saying here. Please allow me to demonstrate:

Looking at our Google Analytics right now, I can see that, aside from the top search engines such as Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, the next biggest place we get traffic from is ChatGPT. Moreover, the average engagement time per session for visitors finding DaniWeb through ChatGPT is more than double that of visitors finding DaniWeb from all other sources.

Us publishers are very aware that ChatGPT plagiarizes our content. We don't like that ChatGPT plagiarizes our content. Similarly, we are aware that Google plagiarizes our content, and we don't like that either. But, ultimately, it's a symbiotic relationship because, in return, ChatGPT gives us a good amount of quality web traffic we can't get from anywhere else. Google gives us nearly all our web traffic.

Poisoning ChatGPT isn't going to solve any problems. Rather, put your energy towards finding a way to give publishers like DaniWeb a way to earn an income without being dependent on ChatGPT and Google.

• Self-driving cars
• Robotics

Something tells me that you are going to post a recommendation that meets that exact criteria. Please don't. We don't tolerate promotional content here.

As to updates, is there a way to disconnect this from fascist run companies like X (twitter)?

Use Mastodon?

I have heard of the "Ignore all previous instructions" thing when ChatGPT first came out, but I don't know how effective that is anymore. I don't think very much so. I haven't heard of anything related to Tiananmen Square or Holocaust Remembrance Day or such, and I don't see how those would be effective at all.

That is the area in Google Search Console where you can check if you have been hit by a manual penalty. A manual penalty is when a Google employee specifically looks at your website, and all the backlinks pointing to your website, and makes sure that your site is not engaged in any funny business. In other words, they check to see if you're violating any of the Google policies such as paying for backlinks, or doing any obvious black hat techniques.

However, just because you have no manual penalties doesn't necessarily mean that Google loves, or even likes, your site. It's very rare to get a manual penalty because almost all "penalties" are algorithmic ... meaning they're factored into Google algorithm updates, as opposed to a human individual manually flagging your website for review. Google does not let you know if you've been hit by an algorithmic penalty. Additionally, they don't let you know if your website has just been knocked down in ranking due to a core update, or one of their other 300+ algorithm updates per year. You may have heard of Google Panda or Google Penguin algorithm "penalties". Today, those are built into Google's core updates.