<meta name="description" content="SOME TEXT" />
This seems like it would require more work than it's worth.spello wrote:* searchable descriptions (deal together with topic title)
I'm on the fence about this one. I've always been weary of adding information to the meta descriptions. I'll think about this for a while.spello wrote:* put descritpions into html (inside <head>):<meta name="description" content="SOME TEXT" />
Would it be that hard to add it into "Topic titles only" or "First post of topics only" search field?kinerity wrote:This seems like it would require more work than it's worth.
Not sure what it's supposed to achieve? The default board setting is to display 25 topics per page, so potentially 25 descriptions. At, say, 50 characters per description, the meta tag would be 1250 characters long, so most of it would be ignored by every search bot anyway.kinerity wrote:I'm on the fence about this one. I've always been weary of adding information to the meta descriptions. I'll think about this for a while.spello wrote:* put descritpions into html (inside <head>):<meta name="description" content="SOME TEXT" />
I know that - which is why I'm on the fence about adding it to the META tag.Oyabun1 wrote:If it is for SEO it won't work because the major search engines stopped using the meta description tag for ranking purposes years ago.
I'll admit, I didn't use the MOD on 3.0, so I wasn't 100% sure how it functioned. That being said, once this pull request gets merged, with the description being limited to 200 characters it's not going to consume much retail space in terms of displaying on viewtopic (I would be using theOyabun1 wrote:However, would the topic description appear when viewing the topic? I assumed it would function similarly to a forum description, which doesn't show when viewing the forum. At least, that is how the MOD for 3.0 did it.
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tag). If there's a real concern here, I can make it ACP-switchable.