I’ve already included everything a user would want for a complete website, including a robots.txt, sitemaps, perfect Lighthouse seo score, rich snippets, and a ton of other stuff.
Should I consider adding an auto generated security.txt file along side the robots.txt file for users?
Do you’all think a security.txt file is something users would want in 2023? Or would it look stupid and confusing?
I suspect most users who use a site generator would be happy with more "automagic"—especially if it were 1. easy to config or turn off and 2. addressing important things like security-related contact info, or how a web-scraping bot should respect your domain.
Also: "simple" generators often veer into "complicated" territory by adding crap features. Elegant appears to lack crap features; IMO, adding *.txt would not complicate or confuse.
We have started with a basic clean foundation, and are now in the process of building up all the essential features an app owner would want, and none of the crap they wouldn't lol.
I appreciate your feedback!
I have opened an RFC and will be pushing this idea through the feature pipeline ASAP: https://github.com/orgs/elegantframework/discussions/55
I may put out a few feelers, and put this topic up for a RFC and discussion on GitHub.
It seems like an interesting new little web thing, and is super easy to implement.
I just share the same concerns as others have mentioned with bots and spammers misusing this file.