Flarum SEO is worst and i still want to use it

[Hari]

@phenomlab i miss Alexa full site SEO audits. Amazon killed that service

[phenomlab]

@Hari Yes, I know… Sad, but true.

[Hari]

Today i have updated to flarum v1.3 and noticed they fixed the meta description issue in the core

<meta name=“description” content=“”>

i am really shocked, did I cry last night for an already fixed bug

[phenomlab]

@Hari said in Flarum SEO is worst and i still want to use it :

did I cry last night for an already fixed bug

You’ll be doing it again soon when you realize something else is missing and you’ll have to pay for an extension to fix it…

[Hari]

@phenomlab true, I just disabled the SEO extension and checked that bug is still there.

so for now, SEO extension is saving me

[phenomlab]

@Hari So they haven’t actually fixed it in the core…? You should not have to rely on extensions to effectively “patch in” what should have been in core from the first release

[phenomlab]

@phenomlab said in Flarum SEO is worst and i still want to use it :

I received something of a backlash when I made the point around Flarum not being GDPR ready or compliant. I’m an information technology and security expert by trade and yet some other members suddenly decided they were experts in the subject matter, and decided to refute my claims by posting links to pointless websites that also had very little idea of what an adequate GDPR framework should look like. In fact, the tone of the discussion deteriorated to the point where my views were almost being discredited - in other words, quite toxic, and not something i wanted to be a part of anymore.

And it’s clear that my comment above was not without foundation. Flarum released 1.3 and still no GDPR support.

The phrase “…on the roadmap…” means absolutely nothing, and it’s one of the core reasons why I departed their ecosystem.

[Hari]

@phenomlab read this https://discuss.flarum.org/d/28602-implement-better-meta-descriptions-for-seo/18

Users have to shout to make them understand things! But it still takes years for the things to get materialised.

Our team has decided to stick with flarum irrespective of SEO or other features. Now there is nothing i can do about their decision.

When i bring this topic to them they said " you are the one who suggested us this system and spent almost $400-500 on extensions now don’t ask us to migrate" and they also said “deal with it” then i went speechless

If they want any new features i will send them fancy invoice

[phenomlab]

@Hari I think this alone said it all

fixing flarums mistakes using an extension is really unacceptable.

The Flarum Dev team have a somewhat bizarre view of what a core product should look like. Sure, I agree with it being lean to a degree, but any product like this should have the basics at least - with SEO and GDPR compatibility being available out of the box. Any forum product relies heavily on SEO for it be be recognised with content content being added, and if that isn’t done correctly, then you are heading into unchartered waters.

WordPress SEO is basic out of the box, but it’s at least functional to the point where you could actually use or without needing a plugin.

[Hari]

Lol, check this epic reply by flarum team

Flarum is coded in such a way where it tells spiders not to crawl any internal links by adding nofollow tag. How stupid this is @sinanisler

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30981-set-all-internal-links-to-dofollow

For few minutes i thought i should register a domain called flarumSEOsucks.com

Boycott Flarum

[phenomlab]

@Hari said in Flarum SEO is worst and i still want to use it :

Flarum is coded in such a way where it tells spiders not to crawl any internal links by adding nofollow tag. How stupid this is

Yes, I agree this doesn’t make any sense. If you compare to WordPress, then (via a plugin of course) you can set the attribute as you wish. It doesn’t make any sense to take a blanket approach. I guess I unerstand why they are doing this, but it’s not an optimum SEO methodology.

@Hari said in Flarum SEO is worst and i still want to use it :

For few minutes i thought i should register a domain called flarumSEOsucks.com

They’d probably sue you for using the Flarum name in a URL