# robots.txt for forum.agoraroad.com (Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe)
# Proposed 2026-10-14. The forum does not use friendly URLs, so every forum page is
# /index.php?<route>/ and the rules below match that form.

User-agent: *
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no
# admin + account pages (members only, nothing to index)
Disallow: /admin.php
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /index.php?account/
Disallow: /index.php?conversations/
Disallow: /index.php?login/
Disallow: /index.php?logout/
Disallow: /index.php?lost-password/
Disallow: /index.php?register/
# lists that repeat thread content or are closed to guests
Disallow: /index.php?search/
Disallow: /index.php?whats-new/
Disallow: /index.php?find-threads/
Disallow: /index.php?online/
Disallow: /index.php?members/
Disallow: /index.php?misc/
# redirects and buttons (each one just sends the crawler to a thread page again)
Disallow: /index.php?goto/
Disallow: /index.php?*/latest
Disallow: /index.php?*/unread
Disallow: /index.php?*/reactions
Disallow: /index.php?*/reply
Disallow: /index.php?*/post-thread
Disallow: /index.php?*/watch
Disallow: /index.php?*/report
# threads, boards, pages, media, attachments, tags, help, css.php and js stay open

# AI training crawlers (matches ai-train=no; Cloudflare already blocks GPTBot and CCBot).
# Search/answer bots (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot,
# Claude-User, Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot) are NOT listed here, so they follow the rules above.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: meta-externalagent
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://forum.agoraroad.com/sitemap.xml