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New comment by zeitg3ist in "Apparently Google hates us now"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:02:53 +0000

Maybe the claims in the Twitter thread weren’t clear enough; I’ve added some clarification especially for you: https://x.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057157781611024764

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Apparently Google hates us now"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:47:00 +0000

A blocked Googlebot would’ve caused a report of 403s in the Search Console, which isn’t the case. And the subdomain has worked perfectly fine for the last 15 years.

You may have a point with the Trainer Central rebranding, but please consider this in the context of Italian language results. It’s not about reaching the home of the wiki (which is pretty much the only page that’s still indexed), it’s all the other search queries (Pokémon names, moves, games, etc - without adding “pokemon central” even) that usually returned our wiki’s dedicated page as first result (or top 5 at least) and now those specific pages are not even indexed anymore.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Apparently Google hates us now"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:37:04 +0000

In the first image you can see how indexed pages go from 40k+ to 11 in the matter of days. Further down the thread I show how 114k+ pages are marked as “crawled but not index” and we can’t understand why. The rest is stuff that is (correctly) blocked by robots.txt.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Apparently Google hates us now"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:32:28 +0000

Grazie! Speriamo anche noi.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Apparently Google hates us now"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:15:20 +0000

We have very good anti-bot system set up with a good number of Cloudflare fine-tuned rules, limited permissions for newly created accounts, and a very dedicated team of volunteers that patrol the recent edits constantly. I cannot exclude that somewhere on a rarely visited page (out of 37k+) there is a spam link, but I doubt it’s the reason for the deindexing. I think this would also appear on the Google Search Console.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Apparently Google hates us now"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:06:26 +0000

We would like the wiki to be free of ads, but hosting costs at our scale are real. Since we don’t like ads either, we compromise like this: users can register for free and never see an ad (they are only served to anonymous visitors); they can also use an ad blocker and we won’t bug them about it.

Apparently Google hates us now

zeitg3ist — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:27:25 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210263

Points: 420

# Comments: 226

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Why Tap a Wheel of Cheese?"

zeitg3ist — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:22:49 +0000

If you buy it vacuum-sealed from a shop, the packaging usually has additional branding from the producer.

Not a "favorite dairy", but if it's convenient to do so, I usually look for the "vacche rosse" type, which is more expensive but also noticeably different (and better). Of course it would be a waste to grate it over pasta; better to eat it on its own.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Apple's Best Option: Decentralize iCloud"

zeitg3ist — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:55:05 +0000

Isn't the "advanced data protection" option already making it impossible for Apple to comply in cases where this is enabled? Of course this is not a perfect solution as it has to be explicitly enabled (and it has some usability drawbacks), but imagine that people who care about this stuff have this enabled already.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Italy's Sun Motorway (2021)"

zeitg3ist — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:57:56 +0000

One thing to note is that the panoramica usually has very little traffic and zero trucks, so while it might take a bit more time it's usually a less stressful experience.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"

zeitg3ist — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:35:40 +0000

Meg White is widely regarded as a great drummer by her peers. "Unskilled" is definitely not true: she just plays in a style that is devoid of virtuosity, and it fits the music very well.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "PHP in 2024"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 13:34:37 +0000

Of course those people exist, and they also exist in PHP land because as soon as you start using its more advanced features it is as complex as the other mainstream languages.

But I would guess that a majority of developers that are not CS researchers value simplicity over complexity, at least in theory. After all they’re just trying to get shit done.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "PHP in 2024"

zeitg3ist — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:13:33 +0000

I would argue it's not the same at all.

If you're very much into art, you've probably seen the simple stuff already, and you would prefer to see something that surprises you or makes you think instead of the nth iteration of the same tropes.

But PHP is a tool, and you want your tools to be boring and reliable. (Whether PHP fits the description is a different discussion.)

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating"

zeitg3ist — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:17:13 +0000

I would argue it’s actually easier to serve content to logged out users as you can cache the whole response and serve it at the edge. Then it “just” becomes a cache expiration problem.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Parmesan makers add microchips to cheese wheels to foil counterfeiters"

zeitg3ist — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:57:02 +0000

The rind can definitely be eaten, and it’s delicious. If you put it in soup like you said it becomes soft and chewy, but you can also grill it or eat it raw on its own (I do sometimes, after cleaning the surface with a knife). My grandma used to say it’s good for your teeth, which is probably not true.

Making “LCD, Please”

zeitg3ist — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:09:34 +0000

Article URL: https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/lcdplease/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37164904

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by zeitg3ist in "iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe"

zeitg3ist — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:08:59 +0000

Most people I know (European here) use a mobile banking app. For my bank, the mobile app also serves as 2fa for the website, so it’s impossible not to have it.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API"

zeitg3ist — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 18:43:54 +0000

Yeah, I was just mentioning it as an alternative since many companies already have Apple Developer accounts — for them this option would be free.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "Serverless maps at 1/700 the cost of Google Maps API"

zeitg3ist — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:17:53 +0000

In these discussions I rarely see Apple Maps mentioned, but I just checked and MapKit JS includes 25,000 requests per day with a $99 yearly Apple Developer subscription. Considering the cost of the alternatives, even if you don’t care about iOS development, it might be worth it to get one just for MapKit.

New comment by zeitg3ist in "The 0.5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files (2020)"

zeitg3ist — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:27:59 +0000

I edit metadata for Apple Music stuff all the time, so it is consistent with the other non-Apple Music stuff I have in my library. I also fix capitalization (this is more common in non-English songs, which inexplicably adopt English capitalization standards), the occasional error in old songs (by comparing to scans of physical copies), useless metadata on song/album titles (looking at you, “(2013 Remaster)”), and sometimes the year (for re-releases, I put in the original release year). Then of course sometimes Apple Music overrides my corrections because someone at a record label decided to change the metadata on some song, so I also have to keep track of it using a separate app (“Music Tracker”) that tracks changes to my library (which is also useful to know when something disappears from Apple Music).

I don’t expect normal people to do this, but for me the ability to edit metadata and mix streaming songs with ripped songs is a huge advantage of Apple Music over other streaming services. Unfortunately Apple Music has a lot of other issues, especially with syncing, and I still can’t understand why there’s no dedicated “featuring” metadata field (everyone pollutes the song title: Spotify solved this), but for me there’s no other possible alternative.