On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 11:55 AM Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le lundi 13 février 2023 à 11:40 -0500, Kevin Cole a écrit : > > The point I was trying to make was "Does there REALLY need to be > documentation for versions 2.13 to 2.25? Maybe 2.20 to 2.25 would > suffice." > > I'm not sure it would help with Qwant/DuckDuckGo/Google searches since we are > already marking the old documentation pages with 'Disallow' in robots.txt, > which is supposed to prevent Web crawlers from indexing them. Would > completely removing the old pages work better, or just turn the search > results into 404s instead of outdated documentation?
Ah. I was unaware of the robots.txt -- though sometimes I wonder if web crawlers pay any attention. > In any case, the ideal solution would be a client-side search button in the > documentation instead of the current Google search button. THAT, on the other hand, would be wonderful!
