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Frequently Asked Questions
By default, all projects hosted on our server are featured in the showcase. If you prefer to keep your work private, simply add a robots.txt file to your project's root directory with the following lines:
User-agent: DcismBot
Disallow: /Note: Our crawler, DcismBot, respects this standard protocol. Once added, your project will be removed from the showcase during the next sync.
The showcase pulls the <title> and <meta name="description"> tags from your HTML. Simply update those tags in your code, and the changes will reflect after the next sync.
Yes! To customize your project's preview image, add an Open Graph meta tag to your index.html. If no tag is found, the showcase will use a screenshot of your landing page which is updated once a week.
The showcase synchronizes every 24 hours. Our crawler automatically scans the server for new projects and updates existing ones during this window.
To be eligible for the showcase, your project must:
- Be hosted on the DCISM web server.
- Contain a valid entry point (e.g., index.html or index.php).
- Be a "live" functional site (not an empty directory).
Common reasons: missing entry point, invalid robots.txt syntax, or the project hasn't been crawled yet.
No. DcismBot is an internal crawler used exclusively for the dcism.org showcase. It does not index your site for external search engines, nor does it interfere with how Google or Bing ranks your project.