1. Maybe you should add noopener nofollow to outbound links?

Despite the fact that Google and other search engines consider these attributes as recommended, my many years of experience show that with a large number of outgoing links (and there will be many with a large number of participants), the presence of nofollow positively affects possible filters from Google.

  1. Decrease avatar size: https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/31987

The visible sizes (+ indentation) of avatars on the central page of the site, for example, look not proportional to the rest of the content.

  • DessalinesMA
    2•4 years ago

    As a general-purpose link aggregator, I don’t want it to be coercive about the types of links allowed, I’d rather communities just make rules about trackable links and remove posts that have them.

    The avatar pixel size is the same as a few other sites, and they look good to me. I think I fixed the indentation, but I’m not sure.

    Also feature requests are better as github issues, I might not see them here, or be able to fix them with code.

    • @AgreeableLandscape
      3•4 years ago

      As a general-purpose link aggregator, I don’t want it to be coercive about the types of links allowed, I’d rather communities just make rules about trackable links and remove posts that have them.

      I interpreted the post as talking about telling search engine crawlers not to follow outgoing links by adding noopener nofollow to the HTML <a> tags, not about tracker elements in the outgoing links themselves.

      • @EvgOP
        5•4 years ago

        Yes, I wrote about it. Thank.

        Search engines, although they consider these tags recommended, still listen to them.

        + noopener nofollow to the code: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/master/ui/src/components/post-listing.tsx#L195

        Some search engines write about their recommendations like this: this is not a request, but a requirement. Failure to comply with the requirements-applying a filter. It’s only a matter of time. The same applies to the tag: meta description

    • @EvgOP
      2•4 years ago

      Thanks for the answer. Now I just look at Lemmy, and I like it. Rust is a new language for me. Perhaps a more flexible way to add the function: nofolow to communities, to settings? For the owner of the community to choose, or make it global settings (which can be selected). Just a suggestion.

      • DessalinesMA
        2•4 years ago

        These tracker removers mostly already exist, but as browser plugins. I don’t know that I would want to do the work of taking their existing code, porting it to lemmy, and then configuring this option, rather than just using those extensions that work for your whole browser.