Back when we were experiencing a 28-second delay for every page load (remember those awful days?), I disallowed search bots from crawling the forum and sapping our precious
bodily fluids server memory. Unfortunately, Google took that as a hit that we didn't want to be listed in their search results anymore .... which robs us of a key resource to search the forum (especially since I haven't fix the native Search function here yet).
I've now updated things to allow search engine bots back in, with better instructions on which pages they should index. I've also asked Google to re-index this site, which will likely increase the number of Guest users online rather dramatically. But because we generally don't care about Guest users, I changed the default filter in
Who's Online from
Everyone to
Members Only.
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