From 55bcd5ba5be3d87098f0ba881752e59910bdd46e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: IanoNjuguna <inc3099@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:36:56 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(website): remove the hard-coded canonical link from Root
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Root.tsx rendered <link rel="canonical" href={siteConfig.url} /> for every
route, which tells crawlers that every page duplicates the site root.

Docusaurus already emits its own per-page canonical from siteConfig.url, and
it replaces Root's tag during render: on the current build, 0 of 112 pages
contain the hard-coded form and every page canonicalises to its own URL. The
symptom in #324 is therefore not reproducible on the deployed site, so this
change is deliberately subtractive rather than a reimplementation — adding
another canonical would leave two tags per page.

The tag is removed anyway because it is a trap: if the per-page canonical ever
stops overriding it, every page silently points at "/" again. The unused
siteUrl goes with it, and a comment records why it must not come back.

Verified after the change: 112 pages, exactly one canonical each, 0 pointing
at the root except the homepage, 15 pointing at a client-redirect target
(session renumbering stubs) and the rest at themselves. tsc --noEmit and the
production build both pass.

Refs #324
---
 website/src/theme/Root.tsx | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/website/src/theme/Root.tsx b/website/src/theme/Root.tsx
index e88c4d1..395893f 100644
--- a/website/src/theme/Root.tsx
+++ b/website/src/theme/Root.tsx
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ import { DEVEX_SESSIONS_ENABLED } from "@site/src/components/MeetupReminderButto
 
 export default function Root({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
   const { siteConfig } = useDocusaurusContext();
-  const siteUrl = siteConfig.url;
 
   useEffect(() => {
     // Minimal MutationObserver to fix any black text in search dropdown that CSS might miss
@@ -47,7 +46,10 @@ export default function Root({ children }: { children: ReactNode }) {
         <meta property="og:locale" content="en_US" />
         <meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
         <meta name="twitter:site" content="@IntersectMBO" />
-        <link rel="canonical" href={siteUrl} />
+        {/* No canonical link here on purpose. Docusaurus emits a per-page
+            <link rel="canonical"> for every route from siteConfig.url, and a
+            hard-coded one in Root — as this file used to have — replaces that
+            with the site root, telling crawlers every page duplicates "/". */}
       </Head>
       {children}
       {DEVEX_SESSIONS_ENABLED ? <MeetupReminderButton /> : null}