My Live Job Pages Are All Empty, and My Code Cannot Tell Me Why
I opened the public job pages on Upwork Scout while writing this, expecting to screenshot a nice feed. Every one of the eleven category pages said the same thing: "No public sample for this category right now." Every one of them also carried a noindex tag. The design did exactly what I told it to. Nothing thin got indexed, nothing crashed, the pages returned 200 from the CDN. And that is the…
The reporter opened the public job pages on Upwork Scout, expecting a nice feed. However, every category page displayed the same message: "No public sample for this category right now." All pages also carried a noindex tag. Despite the design working as intended, no search engines indexed the pages, and there were no crashes. The reporter aimed to explain why the pages were empty, as it could be due to four different causes.
Each cause leads to an identical HTML page, which the rendering function disregards, resulting in empty pages. The reporter identified four distinct paths that lead to these empty pages, all converging on the same HTML.
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