Homepage doesn't have canonical URL

[michaeld (Michael - Communiteq)]

@codinghorror

I do not see the purpose of this request?

It’s in my post.

@michaeld

That’s relevant when you change the hostname of the site and don’t want to redirect everything yet,
and in order to avoid search index entries like http://forum.domain.com?blahblahblah in case someone links to it that way.

@Mittineague

But this can be more easily achieved on an individual basis without touching any Discourse code.

Yes, that’s a solution for Google that can be used in case the software does not use a canonical URL.
But I see this as a last resort and a means to fix up an issue with a site. I would indeed require fixing it on an individual basis and it does not solve the ?blablah issue. And… you do know that Google is not the only search engine, right?