Suggestion: Do Not Allow 3rd party websites to duplicate the data on this forum. For many years now you guys have allowed a couple of 3rd parties websites to copy word for word every single post on the previous forum. This is horrible for search engines, causes duplicate content issues and worse …

If they block that, won’t it disable any forum reader software, like those used on mobile phones?

I don’t think they will, especially when you have some feeds like this

pretty much not possible. I guess you could play whack-a-mole with IP blocking on people who are mirroring it, but that’s a person intensive task.

Should not be overly technical to detect large amounts of queries from a single IP over many pages on the website in a short period of time. That is what scrapers would typically do.

maybe a watch for an ip doing regular polling, for a longer period than a human would. :confused:

They don’t need to do huge amount of queries with discourse, there are rss feeds and json feeds that give everything to whoever want it. Imho it’s just wasting resources : watching IP will work until that guy change its IP, which is not hard depending where you host your stuff.

I really like the option to search for original posts on these duplicate forums after the user edits his previous post on EVE Forum.

I’m not sure I see the harm of 3rd party duplication. I’ve done a lot of searching and I don’t recall it ever being a negative issue for me. And ultimately, I always end up here on the forums. So I think the cost/benefit ratio of something like that is questionable.

Why should this not be possible? I have found solutions to my questions in old forum threads that were only accessible on Chribba’s page, while search engines would not give any result for the current forum. I don’t see this as a bad thing. Furthermore, less traffic on CCP’s servers is good for thei…

Prevent 3rd party's from Duping the forum

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yellow_parasol (yellow parasol) June 22, 2017, 10:36am 2

that’s not possible?

or if… how?

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