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Update robots.txt #2429

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@cqueern cqueern commented Dec 21, 2023

Updated robots.txt so well-behaved search engine crawlers will not index Crossfeed instances, as I assume they're not meant to appear in search engine results due to the potentially sensitive information they collect.

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Updated robots.txt so well-behaved search engine crawlers will not index Crossfeed instances, as I assume they're not meant to appear in search engine results due to the potentially sensitive information they collect.
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@cqueern Thanks for taking an interest in Crossfeed! You bring up an interesting point about whether or not we want to be indexed. I believe that allowing indexing was a deliberate decision, but I will look into it further.

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cqueern commented Dec 21, 2023

My pleasure! It's an important project.

Sounds good. If the decision is to exclude all robots from the entire server, suggest that line 3 in the robots.txt file remain

Disallow: /

If the decision is to allow all robots complete access, suggest that line 3 in the robots.txt file be updated to

Disallow:

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