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I've implemented some small changes with the goal of improving website performance and SEO:

Search Function and Profiles No Longer Accessible to Guests
Search function shouldn't have ever been accessible to guests, but I discovered that it was when looking at what was being crawled. After consideration, I decided that profiles didn't need crawled, then decided that they didn't need to be accessible to guests for the privacy of our members.

API scripts no longer made through site visits
Basically, this should make the website much faster to browse. I have adopted alternative ways for those scripts to run when needed.

Viewport setting defined for guests
Not having this was docking us badly in Google's algorithms (which have taken mobile performance into strong consideration for several years now). This essentially means that guests viewing the site on a mobile device will no longer use desktop mode.

Forum front page avatars removed on ultra-low resolutions
On resolutions below 500px wide, avatars will no longer display on the forum front page, to make more room for text.

Never in the time that I've been here, have I used the search function.

The search function isn't really that great. There's been a few times I've had to go to the database to find a post I was looking for...but you don't want it accessible to guests cause of bots if nothing else. Bots will play with just about anything that's open to guests if you let them.

Darn I actually use the forums as a guest sometimes.  It was nice being able to use the search function while in a private mode so that the search was not added to my history.

Darn I actually use the forums as a guest sometimes.  It was nice being able to use the search function while in a private mode so that the search was not added to my history.

What are you searching for that's so secretive?

Darn I actually use the forums as a guest sometimes.  It was nice being able to use the search function while in a private mode so that the search was not added to my history.

What are you searching for that's so secretive?

I wasn't searching for anything secretive.  I just like having a level of anonymity when I do things and I prefer not having to empty my search history just to remove a certain item that I looked up one time.  (Any new topic I create that is not done while logged in privately along with searches are automatically suggested as a fill in when I type stuff, that does get annoying )

@Imaginative Kane: Mm, I've been considering doing away with browser bookmarks and history entirely. I use Google Sheets for my bookmarks, and it's a lot easier to find things there than through Chrome, and I've just never really used my history. Maybe that would solve your problem too without having to go into private mode for different things.

I mostly use search for UH things, and also to find things in the abyss that have been lost for many years (usually this means Werewolf stuff).

Edit: not sure why I posted this lol, I think it was just my instant thought after reading Red Mones' post, I suppose I'll leave it up

I mostly use search for UH things, and also to find things in the abyss that have been lost for many years (usually this means Werewolf stuff).

Edit: not sure why I posted this lol, I think it was just my instant thought after reading Red Mones' post, I suppose I'll leave it up

Speaking of Werewolf, updating the Hall of Winners is one of the things on my agenda. The search function might actually come in handy.