Submitted 13 hours ago by interesting@sh.itjust.works to main@sh.itjust.works
The current domain is basically invisible to search engines. sh.itjust.works is too long, the .works TLD isn’t SEO-friendly, and the “sh.” subdomain doesn’t add value. Why not use something shorter like itjustworks.com or itjustworks.org instead?
Is this deliberate? Would appreciate if an admin could explain the reason.
Better domain? This is the best domain.
auster@thebrainbin.org@thebrainbin.org 11 hours ago You think a lemmy server is going to get on google’s front page for searches because we changed the TLD to .org?
CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago I like the domain and I really don’t care for it to be SEOed!
auster@thebrainbin.org@thebrainbin.org 10 hours ago Also even if there is a decent overlap, appearing as 55th biggest in MAU among all softwares on FediDB, not being the immediate result in most searches should be good. I'd expect people to choose if not the first, then at least one of the first instances they find, so other instances appearing in searches helps spreading out, and thus not making a specific one disproportionally big.
It’s for teh lulz.
Shhh, it just works
SEO-friendly
add value
looks at you with a degree of side-eye somewhere between “bombastic” and “criminal offensive”…
JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago Tell that to the gajillion of Mastodon servers whose TLD is .social. Including mastodon.social which is home to over 20% of all monthly active Fediverse users.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 hours ago I don’t think the domain is the issue so much as the servers its run off of. Love the instance, but god damn the number of times it just straight up fails to load.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Because then our shit would no longer work.