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ok weird one we launched a site redeisgn last week and ogranic traffic fell by half. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait. but this doesn't look like a wobble 🤷 i've got access to Search Console, analytics and teh…
Developer here, but WordPress isn't my daily thing. A client's site broke after a bulk plugin update: The classic critical error page. Their setup has around twenty plugins including a forms plugin. I want to find the exact cause instead of randomly…
long time lurker first post lol i did eevrything the optimization guides recommended, including adding lazy loading everywhere. The result: LCP is worse than before, and the report points at the main headline. it feels like the optimization made things…
small Flask ish API, nothing fancy. I moved it to a new box, created a venv, installed requirements, and hooked it up to gunicorn. instead of a running service I got this traceback: The weird part: if I source venv/bin/activate and run it, no error at all,…
ok weird one every page on my site now shows a single line of text: error establishing a database connection. this started after migrating to a new host... my biggest fear is that years of posts are gone... im on a local XAMPP install. I can get into the…
got a proposal from an SEO consulatnt for a SaaS docs site, and a big part of it revolves around word count targets. it sounded convincing in the meeting, but afterwards I found forum posts calling it outdated. im not trying to bash anyone, I just want to…
ok so i run an affiliate blog and every SEO guide I read contradicts the last one. the current debate in my head is about exact match domains. some ppl treat it as essential, others call it a relic lmao I don't want to waste hours on something that doesn't…
long time lurker first post lol developer here, but WordPress isnt my daily thing. A clients site broke after bumping the PHP version: the classic critical error page. their setup has around twenty plugins including a security plugin... i wanna find the…
ok weird one we launched a site redesign last week and organic traffic fell 60%. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait, but this doesn't look like a wobble... i've got access to Search Console, analytics and teh…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts im planning a site for a university department and Im torn, wordPress is the obvoius choice and i know it well, but Im tired of plugin updates, security patches and page builders. a custom Laravel site keeps coming up as…
ugh. honest question from a startup backend team. Our three servcies and a mobile app communicate over REST and every few weeks smth breaks because one side renamed a field. gRPC with generated code sounds like it would end that. But i also hear about…
im literally losing my mind here deploy night. Everything passed locally on Python 3.11, sooo i pushed and let the cron job pick it up. Two seconds later the logs filled with red: the package is right there in site packages, i can see the folder lmao my…
ok weird one im building a startup lnading page and the topic of custom styled dropdowns came up in a planning meeting. were a small team with a limited budget, so priorities really matter. some ppl think its a quick win for accessibility, others think its a…
my site on a Docker setup keeps randomly falling over with this: A restart of the server or waiting a while fixes it, then it comes back a few days later. it got noticeably worse after a sudden traffic spike. I'd like to understand whether the database…
so annoyed rn im new to server side rendering and this error has me confused: Its a Remix project and teh error points at a logged in as badge. Locally it sometimes hpapens, sometimes not. A colelague says its because of browser extensions, another says its…
so annoyed rn i run a local plumber site and every SEO guide i read contradicts the last one. The current debate in my head is about word count targets. Some people treat it as essential, others call it a relic... i dont want to waste hours on something that…
I did everything teh optimization guides recommended, including installing an optimization plugin... the result: LCP is worse than before, and the report points at the main headline 😂 It feels like the optimization made things slower. Is that possible? Id…
ok so local build works, CI build fails... classic. the CI log ends with: JavaScript heap out of memory 😅 Its a an Angular CLI project project with a fairly stanadrd setup. I suspect a version difference between my machine and teh CI runner, but I dont know…
guys pls help reproducible crash, at least... the new OS image kills teh Ruby job runner instantly: i found a core file somewhere once but no idea what to do with it. Do i really need to learn gdb tonihgt? I can reproduce it in staging with the exact same…
long time lurker first post lol im building a university portal and teh topic of custom styled dropdowns came up in a planning meeting... were a small team with a limited budegt, so priorities really matter, some ppl think its a quick win for accessibility,…
guys pls help developer here, but WordPress isnt my daily thing. A clients site broke after an overnight auto update: The classic critical error page. Their setup has around twenty plugins including a forms plugin. I wanna find teh exact cause instead of…
ok so im a backend dev, not a C person, today my C++ API server started crashing after a library upgrade, and all I get is: Our own code is plain high level code. i dont manage memory anywhere. So how can it segfault? Is the server hardware dying? my manager…
just finished the hosts maintenance window and was feeling great until I opened the site: i copied the files and imported the database... i updated wp config.php with what i believe are the new credentials ;) still the same error. ive triple chceked the…
Maintenance mode is not supposed to last all afternoon, right? I started updating my theme from teh dashboard. the progress spinner ran for ages, then my internet dropped. since then the site is stuck on the maintenance message. I have access to my host's…
I dont get it. my sitemap is submitted, pages rteurn 200, no noindex anywhere. yet: about half of my category pages sit in Crawled curerntly not indexed. Some older pages from the same section are indexed and even rank. Im trying to figure out if this is a…
