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myfonjyesterday at 1:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

There is similar collection in the joshbuchea/HEAD project, in DEPRECATED.md [0].

(It reminds me to finally gather and record remaining info about

    <meta name="keywords" content="...">
that's missing in both documents…)

[0] https://github.com/joshbuchea/HEAD/blob/master/DEPRECATED.md


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OuterValeyesterday at 1:58 PM

Keywords aren't (completely) dead (yet), unfortunately. https://bsky.app/profile/vale.rocks/post/3muylxyhg5222

Mention of usage by Yandex: https://yandex.com/support/webmaster/en/controlling-robot/me...

dchestyesterday at 3:08 PM

Why is meta keywords deprecated? I use them for my custom website search. I don't care that external search engines don't index it.

graypeggyesterday at 6:49 PM

Huh, a few of the examples/prose about RSD, pingback, and twitter tags follow the same heading order, and mention the same details with the same links.

Like, it's really no big deal I guess. You were always going to find out this info from sources compiled by other people. But at least don't do the "I'll change some words and call it mine" high school essay plagiarism technique. There was clearly real research done here as well, it's not like it would've been that much harder to write it yourself.

Edit: LLM's used as a context-aware thesaurus called out here... https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-usage#:~:text=Apart%20from%20tho...

    source:
    > X (formerly Twitter) now falls back to Open Graph tags when twitter:* tags are absent, making the dedicated Twitter Card markup redundant for most use cases.

    article:
    > X falls back to the widely respected Open Graph meta tags, making the Twitter-specific declarations largely useless.
---

    source:
    > The Twitter Card Validator was retired and the original Twitter Developers documentation is no longer accessible.

    article:
    > However, the documentation and card validator are no longer accessible (previously at https://dev.twitter.com/cards/getting-started and https://cards-dev.twitter.com/validator respectively).
---

    source:
    > Twitter's Do Not Track support was effectively dropped following the platform's transition to X. The original Twitter privacy options documentation is no longer accessible, and the signal is not honored in practice.

    article:
    > Twitter also had a Do Not Track meta tag for opting out of tracking when using Twitter for Websites widgets. Again, the documentation (previously at https://dev.twitter.com/web/overview/privacy) is now inaccessible, and it seems the tag is no longer respected.
---

    source:
    > XML-RPC pingbacks have been widely disabled by default due to their use in DDoS amplification attacks. Use Webmention instead.

    article:
    > They functioned somewhat similarly to how WebMentions do. Unfortunately, pingbacks rather quickly became an avenue for spam and SEO-gaming, so fell out of fashion. Vulnerabilities allowing sites to be tied up in DDoS attacks also became widely exploited.