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Discussion on: Relieving Fears Around Reposting Content from Other Websites

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Michael Tharrington

Hey Varhal,

Really appreciate you bringing these things to light!

I know that some articles are not indexed at all. This is talked about a bit in the post here: Changelog: When is an article indexed by a search engine? and I think this comment is particularly enlightening.

As for the description tag being the same on all articles, that does seem pretty odd. I'm going to relay your concerns to our team today and see if there's a reason we're doing this or if it's something we may be able to change and improve upon.

Thanks very much for looking into this so thoroughly and providing such helpful feedback!

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Michael Tharrington • Edited

Speaking with the team, it does in fact appear that each description is uniquely generated based on the post's content. For instance, when I view the page source for my recent post here , I see the following:

description meta-tags on my post

That said, we are discussing some subtle changes we could make here. And of course, if I'm misunderstanding you, please do chime in and set me straight! πŸ™‚

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Varhal

Thanks, this cleared up a lot of questions πŸ‘

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Michael Tharrington

Great! Really happy to hear this explanation is helpful. πŸ™‚

If any other questions arise, don't hesitate to ask away!