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Remove rel=nofollow attribute in certain situations #482

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@thebaer thebaer commented Jun 27, 2021

Previously, WriteFreely always applied rel="nofollow" on all blog links, since posts on multi-user instances are published by untrusted users, and this helps protect such instances' reputation with search engines. This change alters that behavior by not applying rel="nofollow" if the instance is set to single-user mode, since we can assume that all content is trusted, then. When merged, it will close #314.

Still to do:

  • Allow user to manually add rel attributes on HTML links

Still up for discussion:

  • Should we use any other signals to determine whether or not to disable rel="nofollow"?
  • Is there a reason we might add an explicit configuration option for this? Or could we leverage another one for that?

  • ☑ I have signed the CLA

@thebaer thebaer added this to the 1.0 milestone Jun 27, 2021
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thebaer commented Sep 21, 2023

Merging now.

@thebaer thebaer merged commit 299686c into develop Sep 21, 2023
@thebaer thebaer deleted the rel-nofollow branch September 21, 2023 20:26
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