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

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@davidb

Overall I am noticing that these schema errors are trending downwards

Yes, that matches what I’m seeing too:

I don’t appear to have a “TEST LIVE URL” button on mine though?

A few screen shots if it helps:

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Currently attempting validation again:

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@davidb things are looking better this morning too:

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Is there scope to address the yellow items too?

I’ve just re-started validation on the ones that are clearly trending downwards and the flat-lining ones:

But this one won’t even pass the pre-validation:

If it helps, there only seem to be two affected topics.

Not sure if relevant but the first post of this topic only contains hyperlinks: https://greyarro.ws/t/new-gimp-3-0-a-viable-free-alternative-to-photoshop/93092

And this one only has a video in the first post: https://greyarro.ws/t/how-to-film-edit-cinematic-fpv-drone-fly-through-dji-03-air-unit/74515

Is a lack of actual content the issue there perhaps?

[davidb]

@Richie

If it helps, there only seem to be two affected topics.

Thanks, I will investigate this. I suspect it’s because the OP contains no text at all.

We use the OP text as part of the question in the QAPage schema (for topics enabled for Discourse Solved). If there is no text in the OP then we may need to either skip it or use some placeholder (maybe using the topic title in the text value would work) to prevent Google from showing this error.

We already skip individual posts now if they have no text, but it looks like we can have “questions” in this way without body text so will need to account for that.

[RBoy]

I saw a new issue crop up yesterday

Missing field “text” (in “mainEntity”)

These appear to be affecting pages with translations. Here’s an example

https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/mcebuddy-2-3-and-nas/1763/2?tl=zh_TW

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<p>同时看看这个</p>
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[Richie (Richie Rich)]

It’s mainly there but is still be failing on three URLs.

Both failures are for the same three URLs too:

[GaurangBlaze (Gaurang Tandon)]

In case it helps, we had two issues: “Missing field ‘name’ (in ‘mainEntity’)” and “Missing field ‘answerCount’ (in ‘mainEntity’)”. After upgrading to v2026.5.0-latest (commit 601e66da60), and triggering a validation from Google Search Console, both the issues are 100% fixed

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

I’m also running 2026.5.0-latest (601e66da60) and still face the issue discussed.

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Latest sit-rep after the last round of re-validation checks: