Re: Beta 1: Conlang Mirror Archives

Hi!

Sai Emrys writes:
> Some suggestions for improvement:
>
> * show # comments per thread in list view
Done in new version which is currently regenerating (it is reloading
the whole data base again after some redesign) -- some time tomorrow
it will be visible.

> * have list view of most commented threads of all time
Good idea!  Noted.

> * have 'flat' view with all comments on a thread in one page
> * have option to have exerpts from comments listed in the semi-flat view
I don't think I will implement this due to the large redundancy
required.  The current design creates static HTML pages to make the
site fast, so each page takes space on hard disk.  I don't want
unnecessary overhead and duplicating the contents of all posts is a
huge overhead, so the content of posts will usually only be stored
once.

(Additional to taking up space in disk, redundancy of this kind
greatly increases regeneration time and complexity of incremental
update constraints and I don't want either either.)

So the site will not contain dynamic content in order to let the
server work smoothly, and because I don't think there are many things
to customise that will justify dynamic content.

> Otherwise looks pretty good. Go you. :-)
Thanks!

Some time tomorrow, 2006 will be visible and I hope to be able to
switch on online updates, i.e., the site will probably automatically
stay up-to-date soon.


BTW, Google is slower than I thought: it has only visited 8500 pages
so far (not even these seem to be searchable, however).  *sigh*
We need to be patient.

**Henrik