John Clause on "[Plugin: qTranslate X] Google Search Console reported faulty hreflang-Tags on my website"

@jasuja:

x-default only needs to be used if you have a page that's only for choosing the language

Exactly, this is the entry page where user can choose the language. Redirection was punished by Google except when with a purpose of setting a language. We used to be in sync with Google requirements. Anyway, if Google now wants us to do the things in a different way we will comply.

Unfortunately, such change, as you propose, is not simple at all, there are many things to think about. Many themes create language-neutral links in many places, which only work now because language is set in cookies and those links get redirected to the language chosen by user. This was a huge improvement over old qtx, which made many themes to work much more consistently. Not to mention the complexity added by proper handling of ajax calls. If we simply take this away, we will essentially break all those themes now. I am not sure what to do, we need to research it.

Do you have a link where it is explained that "x-default" is retired now and why?

Thanks a lot for your help!