Let the pages that already exist say what they are - #176
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Three findings from the SEO audit, which share one cause: pages that exist but decline to say what they are. A faceted listing declared /games as its canonical URL and carried /games's title and description. That is right for the combinatorial URLs the no-script facet panel emits — every sort, exclusion and pair of filters is another address — but it swept up the listings that are not near-duplicates at all. /games?codebase=PennMUSH answers a different question over a different set of rows, and every one of those was telling a search engine, correctly by its own rules, to index none of them. IndexableFacet draws the line: one included value of one whitelisted dimension at the default sort is a category and is self-canonical; everything else stays consolidated. That bounds the indexable set to the sum of the dimensions' values rather than their product, and the value is respelled as the catalogue publishes it so ?codebase=pennmush lands on the same URL the panel links to. The site published no identity graph, so nothing said who runs it. Unlike the game graph, this one is not gated on the catalogue being measured: its subject is the site's own name, address and languages, which are as true over the fixture as over a crawl, and suppressing it would withhold a true statement rather than an invented one. sameAs is configuration and ships empty — it is a claim about a third party, and a compiled-in default would have every fork assert it about somebody else's repository. No SearchAction: the sitelinks searchbox it fed was retired in November 2024. The front page had no title of its own, so its <title> was the bare wordmark, and its body was figures and hostnames — legible to somebody who already knows what a MUCK is and to nobody else. It now carries four short passages and a described list of the nine surfaces it previously reached only through one-word nav links. The passages live in HomeCopy as ids, walked by both the page and its text mirror, so neither can fall a paragraph behind the other. The promise about ranking is the rankings page's own sentence rather than a second one saying the same thing; PlainParityTests exempts exactly that sentence by id, since the words its surface guard bans are the words that sentence exists to disclaim. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
The text mirror was an untitled duplicate of every page. ?plain=1 is the same document at the same address (spec §9), and the game page has always rendered its metadata above the plain/graphical switch — but every other page left SitePreview inside the graphical branch, so the mirror came back with no title, no description and no canonical link. That is one uncanonicalised twin per page, a few thousand of them, and it is the first thing the audit's own crawl listed. SitePreview is now hoisted above the switch everywhere. /crawler had no metadata in either mode and now has its own title and description. The sitemap gains /find and /crawler — both in the header, both in no sitemap — and the category listings the previous commit made indexable, taken from the same facet pass the panel draws so a submitted URL is one the site links to and one that returns rows. A test walks every submitted category and checks it is self-canonical, since submitting a page that names another as its canonical is a contradiction. robots.txt excludes /g/*/claim on the same ground /account is excluded: signed out it is one short ceremony page repeated under every slug. /llms.txt is new, and is not published as a ranking signal — Google has said no Search system reads it and the evidence for citation lift is absent. It is here because what it points at is true independently: a text rendering of every page and a documented, versioned API. It also states the four rules an agent most often gets wrong about this data, which is the part worth having either way. Structured data now covers the three things the site publishes and did not describe: listing pages as CollectionPage + ItemList, capped at thirty items because this is bytes on a page that already loads slowly; the API guide as a schema.org Dataset with its configured licence and both bulk distributions, which is what Google Dataset Search reads; and a game's connect address as a GameServer node. That last one carries no serverStatus and no playersOnline — both are values with nowhere to say "as of when", and an undated "Offline" would state our vantage point as a fact about somebody's running game. Two things found while doing this. The badge snippet on the owner dashboard was built from rooted paths, so pasted on an operator's own site it linked to a page of theirs that does not exist and loaded no image — the one feature whose entire purpose is a link back here. It is absolute now, and offered on the public game page too, where an operator deciding whether to link is actually reading. And gameServer had held the codebase string until #175 corrected it; the test that locked that in asserted the property was absent, which now says what it meant instead: the codebase is in runtimePlatform and this is an object. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
The strategy, the findings neither report raised, and — the part worth having later — the recommendations that were declined and why. Several standard SEO recommendations ask for the thing this project exists to refuse: analytics and a tracking pixel on a site that runs no script and fetches an icon through its own origin so a decoration cannot leak a reader's address; a postal address and LocalBusiness markup for something that is not a business, prompted by an audit that read a phone number of "+1 22998824749" off the page; five social profiles a pull request cannot create; and "Vote for us" anchor text, which would import the exact incentive §2 bans a vote affordance to remove. Two more were declined on evidence rather than principle. hreflang in the sitemap is a second, conflicting signal where correct HTML alternates already exist, and the consistent advice is to use one method. Page load is dominated by `Cache-Control: no-store` on every document, which PageCacheHeaders documents as deliberate after a reader who signed in and pressed Back was handed the signed-out render; splitting anonymous from authenticated caching is a real improvement and a real change to that guarantee, and deserves its own change. Site__SameAs is documented and forwarded through compose. Forwarded rather than left out for the reason tools/check-compose-settings.py exists — but compose passes an empty string when an operator sets nothing, so "unset" and "set to nothing" both have to mean the claim is not made. A test now holds both halves: a named profile appears, a blank one emits no sameAs at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
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WalkthroughThe change expands SEO metadata, structured data, canonical category pages, sitemap and crawler resources, badge links, site identity configuration, facet accessibility text, and localized page content. It also adds integration coverage for these behaviors and plain-text page parity. ChangesSEO and discoverability
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Filtered catalogue pages may publish structured data that represents a subset as the full catalogue, which can mislead search consumers. A few lower-impact URL, test-maintenance, and locale-status correctness issues also remain; the structured-data mismatch should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Request->>SitePreview: render canonical preview and JSON-LD
Request->>GamesView: evaluate listing filters
GamesView-->>Request: return category metadata and collection data
Crawler->>SiteIndex: request sitemap or llms.txt
SiteIndex-->>Crawler: return indexed URLs and catalogue guidance
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In `@src/MUI.Web/Components/Pages/Account.razor`:
- Line 151: Pre-encode the displayed game names in both copyable HTML snippets:
use System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlEncode(game.Name) in the Account snippet and
System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlEncode(Page.Summary.Name) in the Game snippet,
preserving the existing snippet structure so copied text retains encoded
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In `@src/MUI.Web/Components/Pages/Archive.razor`:
- Around line 19-21: Update the ListingStructuredData.For graph in the archive
page so it is emitted only when Query is empty, or source it from the unfiltered
archive entries rather than q-filtered Entries; preserve the /archive canonical
URL. Add a request-level test covering a non-matching q value and verifying the
filtered response does not emit the canonical archive graph.
In `@src/MUI.Web/SiteIndex.cs`:
- Around line 292-297: Update the FindAGame.razor page to render the existing
SitePreview canonical metadata before retaining /find in the sitemap list.
Preserve the current /crawler canonical behavior and locale-routing redirects.
In `@tests/MUI.Web.Tests/SiteIndexTests.cs`:
- Line 162: Update the negative assertion in the SiteIndex robots test to
compare parsed lines rather than a string containing a hard-coded newline.
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The four passages added to the front page read as generated filler, because that is what they were, and filler under a masthead promising every fact carries its provenance is worse than a short page. Removed, with the ids, the text mirror's copy of them and the CSS. The front page's body now renders byte-for-byte identically to main. The thin-content finding stands open in the doc: what the page needs is a few paragraphs by somebody who plays these games, which is a writing job rather than a code change. Everything else this work added is now translated into all four offered locales — 21 ids each — composed from each locale's own reviewed vocabulary rather than freshly worded: the provenance words, the facet group names, and the existing badge and claim terms all come from that locale's resx as it stood. A test holds the coverage by id prefix. That also made PreviewCopy.Titles.Game's HasOwn gate dead code, so it is gone. Four review findings, all valid: Game names in the copyable badge snippet were single-encoded. Razor encodes the response, but a browser decodes entities when the reader copies <pre> text, so a name carrying a quote — and names come from MSSP — pastes as broken or injectable markup. Both snippets pre-encode now. The archive's ItemList named /archive while being built from the q-filtered set, so /archive?q=no-match published an empty list claiming to be the whole archive. Emitted only when the search box is empty. /find was added to the sitemap while rendering a bare PageTitle and no canonical link. It goes through SitePreview now, with a description of its own. A robots assertion embedded a literal newline, which AppendLine does not write on Windows. It compares parsed directives. Comments across the new files were cut to the repo's own density — they had grown to restating one reason in three places. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
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142-144: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReject blank protocol categories.
Candidatesaccepts a single empty or whitespace-only protocol value.IndexableFacet.Ofthen returns a category and emits?protocol=as its canonical query. MatchIncludedby requiring a non-whitespace protocol value before creating the category. Add a regression case forMeasuredProtocols = [""].Proposed fix
- yield return filter.MeasuredProtocols.Count == 1 + yield return filter.MeasuredProtocols.Count == 1 + && !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(filter.MeasuredProtocols[0]) ? new Category(FacetKeys.Protocol, filter.MeasuredProtocols[0]) : null;🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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711-711: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMatch whole words, not substrings, when banning "vote", "rating", "star", etc.
DoesNotContain(word)on the lowered surface matches any substring."star"is a substring of"restart"and"started";"rating"is a substring of"operating"and"separating". A future, unrelated copy change that adds one of those common words would fail this test for a reason that has nothing to do with votes, ratings, or stars.Use a word-boundary regex instead of a plain substring check.
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- await Assert.That(surface.ToLowerInvariant()).DoesNotContain(word); + await Assert.That(System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch( + surface, $@"\b{word}\b", System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase)) + .IsFalse();🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/MUI.Web.Tests/LocalizationTests.cs`:
- Line 341: Update the localization matching logic for “preview.title.game” so
it matches only that exact identifier and cannot also match
“preview.title.games”; use an exact-match condition or an unambiguous boundary
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In `@src/MUI.Web/IndexableFacet.cs`:
- Around line 142-144: Update IndexableFacet.Of so the single-value
MeasuredProtocols branch creates a Category only when the protocol is non-null
and non-whitespace, matching Candidates/Included behavior; otherwise yield no
category. Add a regression test covering MeasuredProtocols containing an empty
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In `@tests/MUI.Web.Tests/PlainParityTests.cs`:
- Line 711: Update the assertion in the plain parity test to detect banned terms
as whole words using a word-boundary regular expression rather than substring
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The badge block on the game page was a raw <pre> of HTML markup on a few thousand reader-facing pages — developer chrome in the wrong place, and it looked it. Reverted. The dashboard is where a tools affordance belongs, and that copy still works; the fix that made it work is unaffected. If the link-back loop is worth pursuing on the public page it wants a design — the rendered badge with a copy control, say — not a snippet at the foot of the page. The badge endpoint itself is untouched: it is spec §8.5 and predates this branch. Filtering the listing to a codebase put a lone "about PennMUSH" link, in kicker capitals, in the results column between the filter chips and the sort bar. It belonged to neither, and it mattered more once these listings became pages in their own right. The convention for a category page is settled, and this site already follows it everywhere else — /archive, /rankings and /ecosystem are all h1 then a dimmed lede: heading, a sentence saying what the page is, then the results. .listing-head was already a flex column styling a <p> at a 62ch measure; it had been built for a lede nothing ever put in it. So the category description renders under the heading now, with the reference link inline at the end of the sentence. A refined listing keeps the heading and the link but gets no sentence — "every game that runs PennMUSH" is false of a page also filtered to MSSP — and the link stays because the listing header is the only place on the site that reaches a codebase's reference page. The unfiltered listing is unchanged. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
The sentence under the category heading was padding. Amazon filters by brand and puts no "About Computers" above the grid, and it is right: the heading names the category, the chips say what is filtered, the columns say what was measured, and a sentence restating those adds nothing. The e-commerce guidance recommending a 50-100 word intro there is optimising for a crawler that already has the h1, the rows and the meta description. So the header is the heading, and a link to the reference page where the filter names something we have written one about. The description stays in <meta>, which is where a search result needs one and a reader does not; a test holds that it appears in the head and nowhere in the body. The reference link stays because the listing header is the only path on the site from a listing to a codebase's reference page. It is one line to remove. The same pass went over the five meta descriptions themselves. Each ended with a clause saying nothing the rest had not — "each carrying when it was last confirmed", "the counts, protocols and reachability beside it are ours, measured, and dated". They are 100-125 characters now, in all five languages, and still draw the distinction that matters: what the game claims about itself versus what we measured. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
The reference link is off the listing header, so the header is the heading alone. With that much room it can carry more, and three dimensions were added: charset, tls and band. Adding band forced a distinction that had been implicit. Being about something and being worth indexing are different questions. Naming the page is free and right for any single facet — a reader who filtered to one thing should see that thing at the top. Putting it in a search index is a claim the page is worth returning to next week, and ?band=playersNow holds a different set of games within the hour. So IndexableFacet has two sets now: Dimensions is what earns a heading, Indexable is that minus band. An unstable category keeps /games as its canonical URL, stays out of the sitemap, and takes the listing's plain title and description — the heading is for the reader looking at it now, and a title naming a set that has already moved is worse than the general one. Two facets stay out of both sets and the reason is worth keeping: codebase version would be hundreds of near-identical listings, one per patchlevel, and MSSP's declared family would draw a second heading over nearly the same games as the derived lineage. The band's five values each get their own heading rather than a frame around the panel's label, and charset says "encoded in" rather than "in" so it cannot be read as a language. The panel's own glosses are gone too. Two labels carried a definition after an em dash — "quiet — no count above 0", "dark — not reached in a month" — and the panel was already truncating the second with an ellipsis, so it was costing a line and being read by nobody. They are "quiet" and "dark" now, in all five languages, which in each is the word that already stood before the dash. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
Follow-on from removing the two glosses. "quiet" and "dark" are the site's own coined words and were left defined nowhere once the em-dash halves came off, so the definitions move to where a definition belongs rather than disappearing. The row carries them as title, for a pointer, and folded into its aria-label, because a tooltip is something browsers surface to a pointer and not reliably to anything else — a definition only some readers get is worse than none. The plain surface has no hover, and its facet list already has a third column for whatever the token does not say: it holds the value in words where the two differ, and was empty for exactly these two. It holds the meaning there now, so a text browser is not the one surface that lost the definition. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
The trending facet had message ids all along; no locale had ever been given words for them, so a German reader saw "trending up", "steady" and "trending down" under a heading reading "Tendenz". It was not alone. The whole "trending"/"discovered" vocabulary had reached English and stopped there: the facet's group name, its two measurement states, the show-fewer control, the sort switch and its unranked note, and the front page's trending feed. Fourteen ids in each of the four offered locales. One of them was worse than missing. listing.columns was translated before the trending column existed, so every locale named two columns over a table with three — "Verbindungen · erreicht" above connected, trending and reached. Corrected rather than added. Each is composed from the locale's own existing words: trend.direction.steady already said gleichbleibend, gelijkmatig, 横ばい and 平稳, and the column separator and register follow listing.row.reached and facet.group.band. All 128 ids the listing surface renders are now translated in every offered locale, and the coverage test names the prefixes rather than the individual ids so the next string added to English fails in CI instead of shipping. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
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In `@docs/seo-2026-09-09.md`:
- Line 351: Update the stale locale status headers in Messages.nl.resx and
Messages.zh-Hans.resx from “never offered” to indicate that both locales are
shipped/offered, matching Locales.Offered and the documentation.
In `@src/MUI.Web/Components/GamesView.razor`:
- Line 13: Update the graph generation in GamesView around Graph and
Indexed(category) so an ItemList is emitted only when the rendered rows are the
canonical /games listing; omit it for filtered or non-category refinements such
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A listing filtered to one facet led with "PennMUSH games" directly above a chip row reading `codebase: PennMUSH ×` — the same sentence twice, the second half of it interactive and the first half spending a band of the viewport. The header block goes; both the filtered and unfiltered listings now open on the toolbar and the rows. The <h1> stays in the DOM as sr-only rather than being deleted. A page with no heading is one a screen reader cannot announce or navigate by, and it is the on-page name the category rule turns on — <title> and <meta> alone would leave the document saying nothing about itself. The rest of the tree already resolves this the same way (FacetPanel, Chip, ClientCapabilityMatrix, ActivityHeatmap). .listing-head stays in the stylesheet: /find still uses it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
The listing's CollectionPage carries @id = the canonical URL, which is /games for anything that consolidates onto it — a refinement, a chosen sort, a search, an exclusion, or a band category too volatile to index. The ItemList beside it held the *filtered* rows, so five kinds of page declared a subset of the catalogue to be the catalogue. Nothing on the page shows this, which is why it survived the first pass. Same defect as /archive?q= describing its search results as the archive, and the same fix: withhold the graph rather than publish a wrong one. The bare listing and an indexable category still publish it, since for those two the address and the rows agree. IndexableFacet.IsUnfiltered is the predicate, compared against the default filter rather than written member by member: a filter member added later and not thought about there makes it false, which fails in the safe direction. Name and description now come off the same helpers the head uses, so the graph cannot drift from it. Five negative cases and two positive ones; the negatives were checked against the previous behaviour and all five fail on it. Also corrects the four non-English resx headers, which said the locale was "reachable but never offered" and described a promotion gate that had already happened — all four are LocaleStatus.Shipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AqvYKUVxyDLM96XqgfnCEM
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Worked from an SEOptimer audit of
mu-index.com(9 Sept, grade C, 19 recommendations) plus a set of directory-specific suggestions. Full reasoning, including everything declined, is indocs/seo-2026-09-09.md.The second uploaded report (Seobility) is a single blank page — no text, no images, no fonts, 1.3 KB. Nothing from it is used; worth re-exporting if its findings matter.
The two biggest findings were not in either report
Every faceted listing declared itself a duplicate of
/games.SiteUrls.CanonicalOfdrops the querystring, which is right for the combinatorial URLs the no-script facet panel emits — but it was applied to every listing, including the ones that are genuinely distinct pages./games?codebase=PennMUSHcarried/games's canonical, title and description, so a search engine following its own rules would index none of the site's natural category pages.IndexableFacetdraws the line: one included value of one whitelisted dimension at the default sort is a category and is self-canonical; two facets, an exclusion, the unknown token, a chosen sort or free text stay consolidated. That bounds the indexable set to the sum of the dimensions' values rather than their product. The value is respelled as the catalogue publishes it, so?codebase=pennmushlands on the URL the panel links to rather than beside it.The text mirror was an untitled duplicate of every page.
?plain=1is the same document (spec §9), and the game page has always renderedSitePreviewabove the plain/graphical switch — every other page left it inside the graphical branch, so the mirror came back with no title, no description and no canonical. Verified against production first:/g/medievia?plain=1had a canonical,/,/games,/archive,/rankings,/ecosystem,/aboutand/crawlerdid not./crawlerhad no metadata in either mode.What the audits did raise
h3. Four short passages and a described list of the nine surfaces previously reachable only through one-word nav links. 197 → 513 words, real heading outline. No figure appears in the copy — a number written into a message is a number nothing re-measures.Organization+WebSiteidentity on every page;CollectionPage+ItemListon listings; andDataset+DataCatalogon/about/api, which neither report raised and is probably the highest-value item here — the site already publishes everything that makes a dataset a dataset and said so in no vocabulary a dataset index reads.telnet://host:portas aGameServernode, plus a title clause describing the page./findand/crawleradded to the sitemap, along with the category listings;robots.txtexcludes/g/*/claim;/llms.txtadded.Where the project's own rules bit
sameAsis configuration and ships empty. It is the claim "that account over there is us", and a compiled-in default would have every fork assert it about somebody else's repository — the shape of mistakeContactedMaintaineralready made once.GameServernode carries noserverStatusand noplayersOnline. Both are values with nowhere to say "as of when", and an undated "Offline" would state our vantage point as a fact about somebody's running game (rule 5).Datasetnode carries notemporalCoverageand no row count, for the same reason.SearchAction— the sitelinks searchbox it fed was retired in November 2024.LuminariMUD - Live MU* Status, Player Count, and Connection Info) was not used: "Live status" is unmeasured, "Player Count" promises a number unknown for much of the catalogue, and boilerplate repeated across thousands of pages is what Google's title rewriting discards.Two defects found in passing
The badge snippet did not work: the owner dashboard built it from rooted paths, so pasted on an operator's own site it linked to a page of theirs that does not exist and loaded no image. That is the one feature whose entire purpose is a link back here. Now absolute — and offered on the public game page too, where an operator deciding whether to link is actually reading. This is the only reader-visible product change in the PR and the easiest thing to drop if unwanted.
gameServerhad held the codebase string until #175 corrected it toruntimePlatform; the test locking that in asserted the property was absent, which now says what it meant: the codebase is inruntimePlatformand this is an object.Declined
Analytics and a Facebook pixel (this site runs no script, and
IconFetcherexists so a decoration cannot leak a reader's address); postal address andLocalBusinessmarkup (not a business — the audit read a phone number of+1 22998824749off the page); five social profiles a PR cannot create; "Vote for us" anchor text (imports the incentive §2 bans a vote affordance to remove); hreflang in the sitemap (a second conflicting signal where correct HTML alternates exist); and page-load work, which is dominated by the deliberateno-storeon documents and deserves its own change rather than a line in an SEO pass.Link building is the audit's only high-priority item and no PR fixes it. What the code can do has been done.
Verification
dotnet build MUIndex.slnx -c Releaseclean, 0 warnings. All six suites pass: Web 1235, Crawl 566, Discovery 336, I3 13, Catalog 643, Crawler 342. Both CI guard scripts pass.Catalog and Crawler ran with their PostgreSQL tests skipped — no container runtime in this environment. CI's Linux leg sets
MUI_REQUIRE_POSTGRESand will run them; nothing here touches either project.Rendered output was checked against a running instance, not only in tests: canonical URLs across eight facet and refinement cases, the plain mirror on five pages,
robots.txt,llms.txt, and the front page's heading outline and word count.Untranslated new surface (category copy, front-page passages,
/crawler's metadata, the badge strings) is listed at the end of the doc for a translator.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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/llms.txtendpoint with API, licensing, and dataset guidance.Documentation
Localization