Why are the forums hidden from Google?

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yeah I really wanted to type "hard-coded" but you got it :-)

also there is a forked updated version of the second plugin ("google seo" one) updated for php8 that I missed before (don't know which php version you have)
it seems maintained by a mybb developer
Google SEO (Updated for PHP 8)
https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?acti...w&pid=1588
https://github.com/Sama34/MyBB-Google-SEO


many guides also talk about how bad is mybb for search engine optimization (missing meta tags etc...). Long story short it never was realeased in core as the forums usage dropped and everyone at the time moved to facebook and socials...

so maybe the "google seo" plugin is way more complete than the "ABP sitemap" one (that does just the sitemap), as it seems it does it all. 
It just need a bit more configuration that you can find in the github page...

do backup the files if it asks to manually hard-code something, as it could quickly get messy