Google search for 'scala' results, at least in some locations, highlights a moderate-quality and unflattering user question thread right under the main language page

[Ichoran]

This is a rather unfortunate and unhelpful first sub-result returned on searching 'scala' on Google:

I don't know if there's a good way to de-emphasize this, but it's not the most essential information one wants to know when looking for Scala (even if one is taking a negative view of it).

[keynmol]

Btw, where does the link lead to?

Note that in UK this is not the case

[lrytz]

The problem reproduces for me. It links to https://users.scala-lang.org/t/why-scala-is-not-popular/9687, perhaps that link was shared and became popular on some platform? Here are all forum threads sorted by view count, the one in question is at position 9 https://users.scala-lang.org/latest?ascending=false&order=views.

[He-Pin]

Add
<meta name="last-modified" content="2025-01-13"> to header or

add to sitemap.xml with

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
   <url>
      <loc>https://www.scala-lang.org</loc>
      <lastmod>2025-01-13</lastmod>
      <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
   </url>
</urlset>

or refresh with google search console.

[SethTisue]

@He-Pin did you mean to leave that comment on #1730?

[fsalvi]

We could disallow this page in robots.txt to remove it from google index. But I'm not sure it's the best approach.