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user_666··on WordCamp US and Ecosystem Thinking
counterpoint: https://natehoffelder.com/blog/the-face-of-wordpress-should-...
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
No, that was because I thought my site was under attack (this was before I learned the story was posted here).
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
yep, all of that!
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
Since when did Steam forums require a login?
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
This kind of problem is also showing up on Quora. Some of the answers I've spotted are so obviously wrong that you can tell a person didn't write them.
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
I mainly use DDG, and this is part of the reason why.
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
According to Cloudflare, the site has had around 30k unique visitors in just the first 3 hours since the link was posted here.

It's my site, yes. It's on a VPS which usually has far more resources than required. I really wasn't expecting to get everyone's attention.

user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
That is Cloudflare.

So many people were clicking on the link from here that it inadvertently DDOS-ed my server. I had to turn on the "under attack" feature in Cloudflare just to get the other sites running again.

user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
I've noticed this as well. I now use a different slug or domain for the development page(s), and change it when the page goes live.
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
Amazon is so bad that I shop on Walmart's website now.
user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
That is my blog post.

I did that with the convention site, yes. It still wasn't getting indexed.

user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
That's my blog post.

The convention site in question had a GA tag, and it was in search console, and I had submitted a sitemap. Search Console knee the site had 9 pages in the sitemap, and had only indexed the homepage.

The other pages weren't rejected, declined or 404ed - they were simply ignored.

user_666··on Google no longer automatically indexes websites?
Yeah, sorry about that - I didn't realize my story had been posted ehre until just a few minutes ago.
user_666··on The Kindle Fire has a profanity filter
The keyboard app has a filter that blocks certain words from being recognized as speech.
user_666··on Amazon guts affiliate program, cuts fees for electronics in half
I used to make close to 5 digits in the fall months.
user_666··on Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work
Bull.

It's the artist's own fault that he didn't make a backup.

user_666··on O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader
I have around 1500. Most are not active, though.

And I wouldn't take the claim seriously that Google Reader was fast with that many feeds; I found that GR struggled with that feeds: http://the-digital-reader.com/2012/11/01/i-broke-google-read...

user_666··on E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far from Dead
The NYTimes misinterpreted the AAP data it reported: http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/09/23/nytimes-mistakes-le...

A more complete look at the ebook market paints a very different picture: http://fortune.com/2015/09/24/ebook-sales/ https://stratechery.com/2015/are-ebooks-declining-or-just-th...

user_666··on Ad Blocking Irony
Very much so, yes.
user_666··on It's now Illegal to sell adult ebooks before 10 PM in Germany
Yep. Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and Google (55% of the ebook market) all have operations in Germany. They cannot pull out, and nor can the local sellers that account for 40% of the ebook market.
user_666··on An $800 13.3“ E-ink Monitor
Here's something interesting from CES 2015 a couple weeks back.

Hidden in the back of the E-ink booth at CES 2015 was a USB monitor which added a 13.3" E-ink screen to almost any device. And as you can see in the video, it's pretty fast.

user_666··on Amazon's next Kindle could have a hybrid grayscale/color screen
A newly filed patent has revealed that Liquavista, the screen tech company that Amazon bought last year, has a design for a display that layers a color screen on top of a grayscale screen, giving users the option of having color or a high res grayscale screen.
user_666··on Feedly is Now Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers
It looks like Feedly killed the feature. It's not working on links to any other website either.
user_666··on Feedly is Now Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers
Yes and no.

Feedly and other news reader services have de facto permission to gather blog posts at the request of users and then show them to those users. This is a half step beyond that, so you can't really call it copyright infringement.

user_666··on Feedly is Now Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers
One problem with revenue sharing is that Feedly has too many nonpaying users and not enough revenue. They probably cannot afford to share.