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Web Browsers/Web Servers/Feed Readers Leftovers
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Search Engine Roundtable ☛ Google Search Ranking Volatility Heated August 12-13
As I said before, the sad thing is, these ranking movements continue to matter less and less for publishers because Google is sending less and less traffic to publishers. Which is why many large publishers are considering blocking Google Search from their websites completely. The exchange in value for Google crawling one's site, to it sending traffic, has been flipped on its head.
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: Hacked by Chinafans
What Happened
On 2026/08/10 at 2:11 am Australian eastern standard time (2026/08/09 16:11 UTC) someone created a post titled “Hacked by Chinafans” on my documents blog [1]. The person in question created an account named “67965e42a3c3” on that site with the email address 67965e42a3c3@google.com associated with it (I tried emailing that address and it bounced).
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Jake Van Alstyne ☛ My comment section is static HTML
Posting a comment does take a little more. It’s how I keep guard against bots and spammers, etc.
This blog is a Hugo site. It has a comment section. If you view source on any post with comments, you will find them in the HTML, because they are compiled into the page at build time like everything else. There is no widget, no iframe, no tracker, and no third-party script, and loading a post makes no request to any server but this one. The page does carry some JavaScript (the site search, a few small comforts), but the comments never need it: with JavaScript off you can read every comment and post one.
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Standards/Consortia
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Ricardo Mendes ☛ A Node on the Web
It really sucks to have a properly configured email server, running on your own domain — thanks, Cloudron — only to have Google, Microsoft, and the other giants systematically dump your messages into spam anyway.
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