That was something that I didn't realize about phpBB, it displays when different search engine bots are crawling the forums for search indexes.
It displayed BING [BOT] as being logged into the service.
That is a pretty cool feature.
Casey
Oh no! We're being crawled..
Moderator: Kyete
Re: Oh no! We're being crawled..
Casey,
phpBB has a lot of cool features, we're really happy with it so far
Also, since the subforums are sectioned off via login, all the search bots can see is an empty forum. None of the topics discussed here would appear on a search.
If we give bots read access to the forums, we'll make sure to announce it so everyone is aware.
- Alejandro
phpBB has a lot of cool features, we're really happy with it so far
Also, since the subforums are sectioned off via login, all the search bots can see is an empty forum. None of the topics discussed here would appear on a search.
If we give bots read access to the forums, we'll make sure to announce it so everyone is aware.
- Alejandro
Alejandro S. Canosa
Three Minds Software
Three Minds Software
Re: Oh no! We're being crawled..
phpBB is pretty cool. I used to be a moderator on a vBulletin forum, but I am now a junior admin on a D&D forum that uses phpBB. But they only just released 3.1 Ascraeus and most people are still on 3.0. This place looks a tiny bit odd to me, so I'm assuming you installed 3.1.Kanchou wrote:Casey,
phpBB has a lot of cool features, we're really happy with it so far
I presume you will want to allow the bots into the forums (at some point - probably on the day you start selling OWM) so that potential customers asking questions can find threads where users are discussing their issues. Essentially this community will become "user-to-user support".Kanchou wrote:Also, since the subforums are sectioned off via login, all the search bots can see is an empty forum. None of the topics discussed here would appear on a search.
If we give bots read access to the forums, we'll make sure to announce it so everyone is aware.
Having said that, it might be good to have one or more private forums.
David "Big Mac" Shepheard
(A Spelljammer fan hoping to user Other World Mapper to make lots of maps of planets.)
You can see more of me over at The Piazza campaign settings forums
(A Spelljammer fan hoping to user Other World Mapper to make lots of maps of planets.)
You can see more of me over at The Piazza campaign settings forums
Re: Oh no! We're being crawled..
Heya,
I used to run phpBB back in the day but it wasn't as advanced as it is now and it was also prone to security holes. I was just exaggerating my shock. The bot crawling feature is pretty nifty.
Casey
I used to run phpBB back in the day but it wasn't as advanced as it is now and it was also prone to security holes. I was just exaggerating my shock. The bot crawling feature is pretty nifty.
Casey
Re: Oh no! We're being crawled..
I know . I thought it was interesting how fast Google and Bing were trying to search the forums! I pointed out that it was a closed forum because the default user name is the Kickstarter email address.unklStewy wrote:Heya,
I used to run phpBB back in the day but it wasn't as advanced as it is now and it was also prone to security holes. I was just exaggerating my shock. The bot crawling feature is pretty nifty.
Indeed. The open forums will eventually be open to bot searches.I presume you will want to allow the bots into the forums (at some point - probably on the day you start selling OWM) so that potential customers asking questions can find threads where users are discussing their issues. Essentially this community will become "user-to-user support".
- Alejandro
Alejandro S. Canosa
Three Minds Software
Three Minds Software