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I've been mulling this over a little more, and even more convinced that there's essentially no downside and it's a Good_Idea™. :geek:

Looking at this has me wondering if it would be better to actually completely eliminate the forum_id param (f) for viewtopic.php. It does seem rather redundant ...

I had a thought - how difficult would it be to adapt the new feed.php from 3.0.6-RC3 to generate Google/Yahoo/M$ Sitemaps in a fairly scalable manner? The answer is: not that difficult, tbh ;-)

It wants to be a separate script from feed.php - the similarities are there at a high level, but the ...

Acyd Burn wrote:Good suggestion. Can you add this to our bug tracker at the main site?

'tis done.
http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/phpbb3/ticket ... t_id=53305

Bots should only see one URI to each page already, right?

That's true up to a point, but there's still a few things such as viewforum.php?f=1 vs. viewforum.php?f=1&start=0 and a few other, similar cases like that which Googlebot seems to be able to find. There's also the case of external links ...

A suggestion for a simple enhancement to improve crawler/bot friendliness, based on:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

Add just after the <title>...</title> in styles/prosilver/template/overall_header.html:
<!-- IF U_CANONICAL --><link rel="canonical ...

I was thinking about how search engines / bots view phpBB sites, and it occurred to me that it might be better if the scripts returned 403 (Forbidden) and 404 (Not Found) responses in appropriate contexts, rather than a 200 (OK) with an information page from trigger_error() / msg_handler(). The ...

I've been having a play with 3.0.6-RC, and very glad to see feeds making it into the main distribution.

I have noticed one particular aspect of it which gives me some cause for thought. At present, the Last-Modified HTTP header and <updated> XML field both use time() which isn't exactly accurate or ...

DavidMJ wrote:The way we handle dates in 3.2 is being overhauled, it will not be as bad as 3.0

Excellent, glad to hear it! Having just got my head around the interals for timezone/dst in 3.0, I'd be happy to help, if needed.

Hi folks. I've just commissioned a new board based on 3.0.1, and decided I couldn't tolerate the broken / antiquated timezone handling which has been a twice yearly PITA for users and admins alike. I realise that this is probably due to lack of real timezone support in PHP prior to 5.1, but that's ...