Bing is picking all the rss feed for each post, can I disable the feed in Discourse

jomaxro · October 23, 2020, 2:30am

No. RSS feeds have a noindex header, which Bing is supposed to respect. See

app/controllers/application_controller.rb

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            end
          end
          
          around_action :ensure_dont_cache_page
          before_action :check_readonly_mode
          before_action :handle_theme
          before_action :set_current_user_for_logs
          before_action :set_mp_snapshot_fields
          before_action :clear_notifications
          around_action :with_resolved_locale
          before_action :block_if_readonly_mode
          before_action :authorize_mini_profiler
          before_action :redirect_to_login_if_required
          before_action :block_if_requires_login
          before_action :redirect_to_profile_if_required
          before_action :preload_json
          before_action :initialize_application_layout_preloader
          before_action :check_xhr
          before_action :set_crawler_header
          after_action :add_readonly_header
          after_action :perform_refresh_session

and

github.com/discourse/discourse

app/controllers/application_controller.rb

main


      
            if client&.auth_redirect.present? && params[:auth_redirect] != client.auth_redirect
              return render plain: I18n.t("user_api_key.invalid_auth_redirect")
            end
          
            if UserApiKeyClient.invalid_auth_redirect?(params[:auth_redirect])
              return render plain: I18n.t("user_api_key.invalid_auth_redirect")
            end
          
            if UserApiKey.allowed_scopes.superset?(Set.new(["one_time_password"]))
              redirect_to("#{params[:auth_redirect]}?otp=true", allow_other_host: true)
              return
            end
          end
          
          if !current_user && SiteSetting.login_required?
            flash.keep
            if (request.format && request.format.json?) || request.xhr? || !request.get?
              ensure_logged_in
            else
              redirect_to_login
            end

There’s no way to do this (other than making your entire site login required - but that would disable all indexing.)

Are you seeing RSS pages in actual Bing search results? Or only in their webmaster tools?

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Bing is picking all the rss feed for each post, can I disable the feed in Discourse

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