Has Wickedfire always been like this?

[dsiomtw]

So I finally broke down and bought an ipad...

On my desktop I use roboform and crazy random passwords for every site.

So I was sitting on my couch testing out my new ipad and I pulled up WF, not logged in, and tried to read a few threads. Except I couldn't because it seems like most of the subforums don't show shit unless you're logged in.

Seems like googlebot would have a hard time indexing pages if I can't access them unless I'm logged in. Or maybe it's supposed to be like this for some reason and googlebot gets a free pass I dunno.

Anyway just trying to figure out if WF has always been like this or something is weird with my ipad and this funky safari browser or ??

(Off to see if roboform has an ipad app...)

 

[mGrunin]

It's been like this for 3+ years.

 

[cougarclaws]

you can't think of any reasons why it wouldn't be good for the contents of the other boards of this website to be indexed by Google?

 

[juntao65]

Every section except STS requires login. So STS gets indexed by others do not.

 

[dsiomtw]

Not quite true, some others are "public" as well including BST, noob questions forum, etc.

 

[Rexibit]

Every section except STS requires login. So STS gets indexed by others do not.

Every section except the private one get indexed. Google Bot is allowed its own login on VB forums. You just have to login if you follow the link, but you can still view a cached version.

 

[cougarclaws]

Every section except the private one get indexed. Google Bot is allowed its own login on VB forums. You just have to login if you follow the link, but you can still view a cached version.

a site:wickedfire.com search only brings up results from STS, Newbie Questions, Industry News, and SBT

edit: looks like the names of the threads in other sections are cached, but not the contents of the threads themselves