Cafe not 'readable' unless signed in ?

[craigwend]

I know some threads are not included unless we sign in

For some reason with café - when reading from work (I won't sign in)
it gives a - 'blah blah you need to be signed in to read this etc..'

Should this be happening?

 

[Shaun]

Yes. I changed it recently. I'm testing the effect of excluding search engines from indexing our off-topic "community" content against a few different metrics.

It'll be a while for the change to take effect and before I have enough data to decide whether to retain it or not; I'll post an update once I know.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Shaun]

Actually, there may be a way to both exclude search engines from indexing Cafe threads and allow guest viewing. Let me do some experimenting and I'll let you know.

 

[Shaun]

Sorted - I've put an alternative method in place that both shows the off-topic content to guests and excludes it from search engines - win win.

 

[craigwend]

Cheers - can now get my fix @ work (obviously during official breaks )