General support topic for Aeva Media (Latest release: July 28, 2010)

[Arantor]

I have a list of paid mods I want to do. An autoembedder in my own style probably should be on that list (since paid mods provide motivation to add new options)

[Jade Elizabeth]

If you make it well, I will try it out. Also have it embed audio sites like soundcloud, that would be so awesome.

[Isa.F]

Hi!

I was using this mod Aeva-Media-1.4w.zip for years without problems in my site, but this week I had to make some changes that involved uninstall and reinstall all the mods including Aeva-Media-1.4w.zip, and I also had to uninstall and reinstall all the forum from fresh...

Since that day,  this mod isn't working anymore... The mod is not to auto-embedding the videos...

I tried to uninstall and reinstall again (and for this I had to delete some tables), but still don't work...

I didn't had any installation errors...

Didn't had any error log on forum...

And I don't have any server error related with this mod..

The auto-embedder is not working in admin account, also not in uhe default theme...

I also check the permissions, everything is ok...

I'm using SMF 2.0.8



Why this mod is not working, despite I had no errors...?

Thank you! 

[vkot]

No, the author is no linger developing for smf. Aeva is left here because so many people use it, but there is no development and no support from the author.

However, it works just fine on 2.0.7

Aeva is a great mod, and yes it works on 2.0.7 (though it's not working on my site anymore, maybe I'll write about it later), BUT... what will happen if/when SMF makes a big version changes and Aeva stops working? What will happen to all those people that are dependent on Aeva for their albums? They will lose everything and will be without hope (author disappeared, release of fixes prohibited), or they will have to stay with an old SMF version for ever.

Just my thoughts...

[Arantor]

I'm working on a paid gallery, there will be an importer. I realise it's not a perfect solution - but there are always options.

[BB13]

Is it possible to modify Aeva so it will add nofollow to links?

[Kindred]

why would you ever want to do that?

[Arantor]

And it's possible, sure. Doing it while keeping your sanity? Good luck with that.

Aeva is an interesting code base. It's sufficiently interesting that I felt it better to build a gallery from scratch than to even attempt to fix the bugs I know it has.

[Ninja ZX-10RR]

Lol we all know how much you love it

[BB13]

why would you ever want to do that?

Hundreds of dofollow youtube videos drags down.


Hundreds of dofollow youtube videos drags down. I hate the idea about nofollow. But i dont see any other reasonable choice.
It's not necessarily Aeva i want, but i want nofollow. Just so i don't need to worry.

[Kindred]

Worry about what!

Do you think that nofollow improves your seo? It does not...

[Arantor]

Given that the links get rewritten when embedded *not to be links* and become Flash or iframes (depending on age of embedding code), nofollow isn't possible anyway.

[BB13]

Do you think that nofollow improves your seo?

                                  Absolutely!

Given that the links get rewritten when embedded *not to be links* and become Flash or iframes (depending on age of embedding code), nofollow isn't possible anyway.

I have heard that Google does not count links in iframes, but i saw a difference in the serps.

[Kindred]

Well,  your "absolutely" thought is actually incorrect.

Besides that, however...

Given that the links get rewritten when embedded *not to be links* and become Flash or iframes (depending on age of embedding code), nofollow isn't possible anyway.

[BB13]

I will beg to differ. Knowing how google divides link juice. Makes every external nofollow a preservation of power. And beside that if i link to crap then google will trust my site less. If someone accidentally links to a virus, than my site will be; i googled eyes, a partner in crime.

[Arantor]

Then you'd be wrong.

HTML 4.01, HTML 5 and XHTML 1.0 do not permit a rel attribute on the iframe element. So there's no legal way to include that by that.

The only thing you could do there would be to <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> but that applies to the entire page.

You cannot make externally embedded things into nofollow - because the links are replaced with embed widgets, so there's no links to nofollow in the first place.

As for protecting linkjuice, that's simple: remove posts that link to material you don't want to be linked to. nofollowing does not prevent you actually giving a hoot about the content and it won't magically fix you having bad content linkage.

[BB13]

You cannot make externally embedded things into nofollow - because the links are replaced with embed widgets, so there's no links to nofollow in the first place.

I am not arguing against that. I asked about it because it is not my field of expertise. I trust that you know a lot more about it than i do.

I am arguing for the value of nofollow.
I am just saying that nofollow gives me time to discover the bad links before being punished, for them, by google. Sometimes you don't discover them at all. If so they will just lay there and fester. Plus most spammers are less likely to spam the forum if they know the links are nofollow, unless of course, they are just looking for direct traffic. Those are the worst kind, the malware kind.

[Arantor]

And how is nofollow relevant to Aeva exactly?

The links are made into videos *before* Google sees them...

Also, unless you're well established - like been around for years - Google won't be discovering your content within hours or days, meaning that you have time to review it anyway.

And actually, nofollow does not help your ranking the way you think it does, and hasn't for years.

[BB13]

The links are made into videos *before* Google sees them...

This is information i like to hear. Thanks for that!

Also, unless you're well established - like been around for years - Google won't be discovering your content within hours or days, meaning that you have time to review it anyway.

I plan to become well established, so i see no reason for not planning ahead.

And actually, nofollow does not help your ranking the way you think it does, and hasn't for years.

Of course it does not help me rank, but it helps me avoid being punished. Unless you know that google does not respect nofollow anymore, but that would be the opposite of what Matt Cutts says, and i dont see why he would lie about it.

[Arantor]

Even so that's still the job of moderators to police content, you can't fix sociological problems with technical solutions.