Re: Archive
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> We made a few improvements today to the file archive.
>
> <a
> href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm">http://www.rapideuphoria.com/archive.htm</a>
>
> 1. Files listed in the Recent User Contributions page will
> now also appear immediately in the appropriate archive
> category. (suggested by Pete Lomax).
Ok, may I suggest some simple things from a point of view of the most
experienced foreign user and maintainer of the Russian section of RDS
archive? 
The above news is very good, but the *recent* Elektrostatic file is now
hidden in the Sound category between more or less *happy* files.
So, do not sort, please, files inside a category by happy and add the
very recent one to the end of a file.
Then the files will go from the very *first* one to the very *recent* one.
Make several files inside a category, short enough, say 40 or 50 items,
and give them a 'next' link to the next file of given category.
Make a 'recent' mark near the recent item in the recent file, then links
from the Archive page will be, say, win_O5.htm#recent.
Make a 'top' mark in the end of archive files.
This way you do not need *rearrange* all items in all archive files with
every new happy file, you just add a sum and icon to given item inside
given file.
And you can see the very first contributor in every category
without searching for him.
> The way it worked before, if someone was browsing a
> particular archive category, they would not see any new
> files for that category that had been uploaded/updated in the
> past 4 or 5 months.
Yes, it is true, the new order is much better than the old one,
but consider please the above suggestions. They let you make
the archive with more stable structure which is much more
convenient for translation to other languages and for synchrone
maintaining.
And it is more convenient for the readers of Archive - they do not
need reread familiar files to search for news.
> 2. Three new categories have been created:
> * Language Tools (compilers, interpreters, preprocessors, translators
> etc.)
> * Sound (sound effects, music etc.)
> * Top 100
>
> Top 100 shows the top 100 files, across all categories,
> in terms of MicroEconomy. This might help new people
> become aware of the most useful files a bit sooner.
Ok, very good, but what about not only 100 top, but about
all at all happy? And category not 'Top 100', but 'Happy'?
Then we can see not only old happy, but recent happy too,
and in same dedicated category!!! :) :) :)
> A file can be simultaneously listed in Recent User, Top 100,
> and a particular category, if all three apply.
Ok, and a more difficult suggestion for future, about sorting
by fields in categories.
Good Luck with 3.0!
Happy New Year to all!
Regards,
Igor Kachan
kinz at peterlink.ru
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