September 1st is just a few days away now and Google wants to remind us that those who depend on using the noindex direct in a robots.txt will be in trouble. Google is stopping supporting that starting September 1, 2019. This is something they announced back in early July and even sent out Search Console messaging about.

Here is Google's reminder tweet:

Just a reminder -- 🗓️ September 1, 2019 is not far away 🕙🕚🕛. Entries like ⛔️ "noindex" in 🤖 robots.txt won't be supported much longer, make sure to use the other options mentioned in the blog post 👇. https://t.co/SO20OHFxOT — Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) August 28, 2019

Yes, lots of emojis.

Forum discussion at Twitter.