OpenEuphoria

Re: Archive

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jan 21, 2006
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Igor Kachan wrote:
> 
> 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?    

Yes, and thanks a lot for maintaining the Russian section!

> 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.

I have a program that reads the archive database, archive.edb,
and automatically generates all the pages on the Web site 
that contain file descriptions, even the main page (recent 6).

For most categories, things are sorted primarily by MicroEconomy
dollars, but where the MicroEconomy is equal, the sorting is
by date. That's why you see a whole bunch of items at the end
of each page with no MicroEconomy, but sorted by date.

Recent User Contributions is different. It is sorted
primarily by date. Where the dates are the same, the sort
is by "new contribution" first, followed by "updated contribution".
And if those are the same, then MicroEconomy decides it.

> 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.

I realize that many of the categories have grown very large.
I used to get complaints about slow page loading times,
but not lately. A much higher pecentage of people now have
high-speed Internet compared to a few years ago.
 
I should add some new categories. 
Any ideas?

> 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.  

I'll give this some thought. Thanks.
(but I really should get on with multitasking )
  
> >    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'?

I don't want the page size to be too big.
"Top 100" sounds good.
 
> 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.

Maybe someday...

Thanks,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com