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I agree

Ah but then it wouldn't be quite as novel when it happens at Christmas

Searching is back again, I'm not sure it was that causing the issues after all.

Hi Asa, is it worth thinking about blocking /thegallery from search engines through the site robots.txt?

I've noticed that mocks from here frequently come up on Google image searches for real idents, which is probably not ideal.

There is actually no requirement to follow a robots.txt instructions, though the vast majority of the robots/spiders that belong to the best known search engines do obey them. Those that go round harvesting email addresses to push Viagra and what not are an entirely different thing.

The problem is the thumbnails and the sources for the images in the Gallery are not stored on TV Forum, they're on third party hosting sites such as Metropol's upload site (but not exclusively), so it won't change the fact that Google Images has them cached even if the Gallery itself is blocked and Google could just go back to the original location of the posted images.

It may be better to do something like this to add, say, "this is a user mock" to the images, though how much load this would generate on the server I can't be sure as I think reading the documentation it would need to effectively host the images here at tvforum which could get cumbersome:
http://php.net/manual/en/image.examples-watermark.php

But of course if that happened, then it would be easier to just block that folder of the uploads from Google Images. So I don't think there is one straight forward solution here.

I'm not so sure - if you go to this results page https://www.google.com/search?safe=off&biw=1536&bih=732&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=yr5EWt5QhsnoBKrfvrAO&q=BBC+holding+slide&oq=BBC+holding+slide&gs_l=psy-ab.3...10523.10523.0.10845.1.1.0.0.0.0.108.108.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.IIe3b67-Y8o the first result is one of my mocks. Mouse over it and it gives the source as TVF rather than where it is hosted.

Ah, I see where you're coming from now. That's changed recently then, as it used to be that you would get the source of the image where it was hosted rather than the site it was posted to. However if you click on it and hover over "view image", you get the link to Metropol Upload where you've hosted it.

That being said, I'm still not sure whether robots.txt would cover that for Google Images, since Google keep "improving" things. Still a bit of a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation I feel.

I quite like that we get some mocks ending up in real situations, testiment to how good we are... not how bad researchers are at all... ah hem.

I see the issue but I think it would be a shame to block an entire forum for it. It looks like the heading comes from the page title so maybe I could add **Mock Design** or similar to the start of the text to make it a bit clearer?

Is it just me, or on the mobile view, is there no [previous] / [next] page links at the top of the page sometimes when you look at the last page in a thread? They're there for all the other pages.

It seems to disappear for me along with the logo at the top of the page. A refresh sometimes fixes it.

What moblie are you using? I've got them.

Tried it on three different phones, and just found it does it on desktop too if you shrink the page down. At the moment this topic isn't showing the buttons, but this page is (for me). Looking at the page source, the <div id="sb-pagination-bottom">...</div> code missing on those pages that don't show the buttons.