Missing field 'text' (in 'mainEntity.suggestedAnswer')

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Further to this bug last week:

Google search console acceptedAnswer error

Continuing the discussion from Either 'acceptedAnswer' or 'suggestedAnswer' should be specified: I had this issue pop today suddenly after updating to this week’s latest build. Any thoughts as to why it suddenly started? The site has been around for a decade and so has the page that’s affected by it. The topic has only one post (wiki) from the admin (it’s a notice FAQ topic).

And:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/38964

I updated this morning to 2026.4.0-latest (97400099a5) but I’m still unable to validate the fixes with Google

My Google search console is showing:

Clicking through to the validation / fix steps:

And when I try to validate any of the fixes:

I get the same “affected pages were found” error for all three types.

Have I missed something?

[davidb]

Thank you for reporting, we are looking into this issue and should have an update soon.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Thanks @davidb very grateful

[davidb]

I merged a change that should fix most of the errors you are seeing (ie. missing name/answerCount). It turned out these values were missing from the microdata:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/6e8876152c45c2bd7c2f1c0eb6a248f47de9f89c

The 3 problem urls in the last image appear to be a separate issue, 2 of them are emoji only posts with no text and the third is an image only post. But I ran them through the Schema markup validator by pasting the page source and all appear to have zero warnings or errors.

Possibly these 3 page issues will clear on a re-crawl.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Thanks David

Will update Discourse again on Friday and re-try

[MichaIng]

3 errors seem to be fixed, but 1 is remaining + 6 lesser severity annotations, all about missing fields within the suggested/acceptedAnswer elements:

Validation started means the issue is solved. “Not Started” means I couldn’t start it, since the quick initial validation still fond these issues, and I could verify that in the actual page source.

The “text” and “datePublished” fields were actually added to tests with the commit (and our instance contains that commit), but probably at the wrong element? E.g. “datePublished” is expected at the mainEntity, while the tests check it at the suggested/acceptedAnswer?

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Could we not auto-close this topic just yet, please?

[davidb]

Thank you for sharing, I will take a look into this soon and drop another update.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Are there any status updates you can share on this one from last week please, @davidb ?

[davidb]

I’ve made some further updates to tackle this in DEV: update solved schema for non text posts (#39253) · discourse/discourse@3b5874f · GitHub which was merged earlier today.

I will keep this topic open for a while to see if this change solves the issues experienced.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Great, thanks for the update @davidb

I’ll take my Discourse offline tomorrow morning and update, then try again

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

It’s still failing on some I’m afraid

There are several thousand currently being checked by Google, I shall post the outcome of these in due course:

But these two are types are failing the pre-validation check, I can’t even run a full check on them:

If it helps, that last one is a post containing a YouTube video.

I’m not the only one with this issue, surely?

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Still failing I’m afraid

I had an email to say 1,600 had been resolved:

But there are still a few hundred that remain affected

And the same for the ‘answerCount’:

[davidb]

Sorry to hear this. Can you share any urls so I can investigate?

I thought all of the issues you shared here were covered in my last commit that was merged, so maybe there is some other edge case.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Here are a bunch of copy/pastes from the Google Search Console list if it helps @davidb

[
](https://search.google.com/search-console/r/q-and-a/drilldown?resource_id=sc-domain:greyarro.ws)

|URL|Item name|Last crawled|
| --- | --- | --- |
|https://greyarro.ws/t/charging-the-remote-mavic-2/3809|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/searching-for-missing-persons/80386|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/what-can-make-a-gps-signal-poor-re-dji-neo/89332?page=2|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/disadvantages-of-keeping-already-bound-mavic-3/52125?page=2|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/avata-2-flying-backwards/79111|N/A|18 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/pairing-mavic-mini-to-controller/84503|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/recommended-mini-5-pro-settings-for-smoother-gain-expo-yaw-camera-and-more/101901|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/power-line-height/29785|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/why-not-hlg-on-dji-mini-4-pro/102886|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/cheap-mini-drone-for-indoors-recommendations/91541|N/A|17 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/tripltek-tablet-feedback-from-owners-and-general-discussion/31144?page=2|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/ipad-pro-and-dng-files/73819|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/osd-not-shoing-up-dji/71740|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/theoretical-scenario/87594|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/where-would-the-address-linked-to-my-dji-account-be-if-anywhere/93152|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/gusts-gusts-gusts-what-maximum-wind-gust-speed-do-you-consider-safe-for-flying/106683|N/A|16 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/can-i-fly-my-drone-in-the-rain/21853|N/A|15 Apr 2026|
|https://greyarro.ws/t/flytron-strobon-strobe-lights/8504?page=4|N/A|15 Apr 2026|

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Google sent me an email today with a new issue added that wasn’t in their list last week

• Duplicate field 'datePublished' (in 'mainEntity')

At the moment the Duplicate field 'datePublished' (in 'mainEntity') only relates to a single URL of:

• https://greyarro.ws/t/live-video-relayed-to-phone-very-laggy-now/39741

As per:

---

Also, if this is of use, while not a critical error like the others they offer this “Improve item appearance” section which lists lots of “Missing field” values:

[davidb]

Just a quick update to let you know that I am working on this. Hope to have an update soon.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Thanks @davidb, I appreciate the time you’re spending on this issue

[davidb]

One thing you can do is click the “test live url” button on problem pages to see if they are actually still an issue or just a cached version that Google is checking against.

Which will often appear fine:

It’s been about 2 weeks since I merged the last fix for this. Overall I am noticing that these schema errors are trending downwards since these fixes were merged:

The painful part is that there is a delay in Google Search Console after validating changes (ie. Google’s daily indexing/crawl quota per website). So on larger sites it can take longer for fixes to be acknowledged across all pages.

Setting a reminder for myself to check back in on this again in 2 weeks time.

In the mean time if you are still experiencing any new issues related to this please add them here and I will investigate.

[RBoy]

I had this issue pop up yesterday.

The UrL is Audio track missing/stripped from conversion - #16 mattcool1 - Emby - MCEBuddy

Discourse is running version 2026.4.0(3532c82582)

If I try to validate the fix Google gives me this error

Cannot continue validation process

Affected pages were found. Fix the issue and run validation again

error_outline

Audio track missing/stripped from conversion

Item: Audio track missing/stripped from conversion