Disable or bypass feature detect for Googlebot (while serving JS app to crawlers)

So after at least a month or so of serving the SPA ( Full JS version ) of discourse I’ve gone back to the crawler version.

You can refer to my post history but I was making the argument that Google may understand the JS version and rank it better than the crawler version. I was wrong.

Hey @j127 you were correct! ( will be PMing you good sir )

Seems Google did figure out the site, but it just ranked it about the same ( if not slightly lower )

The crawler version was also updated back in April/May as far as the link colors, format etc. so thats a nice help

IMHO if we were to add a simple menu and the “suggested topics” to the crawler version it would make a nice difference to everyone’s SEO.

Other than that, I just wanted to put this out there just in case anyone was curious.

Great work guys!

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