Archives update

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Are you saying "more and shorter" beats "fewer and longer"?

I would, and for reasons having nothing to do with archiving.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Also, since we're no longer on ezBoard, we don' t have to worry about posts falling off after the 20th page.

So the "too many topics" fear is no longer warranted.

[Willets Point]

Frayed Knot wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]Are you saying "more and shorter" beats "fewer and longer"? I would, and for reasons having nothing to do with archiving.

I'm not sure if FK is talking about threads or something naughty.

[Guest KC]

Thanks, Willet ... I did a backup download earlier and the trimming erased
almost 25% of the database file.

[Willets Point]

New inductees into the Featured archives include:

Rotblatt's formula for measuring pimp and savvy satire from Edgy DC.

Adopted prospects who flew the coop are now found offsite

Remember that the offsite CPF Archives are quite expansive, so if you can't find something here, you'll find it there.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Have we retired the donuts thread?

[Willets Point]

Moved to NBF Classics.

[Elster88]

Not being able to search in the archives and not being able to steal code are two big flies in the ointment.

[Guest KC]

I don't wanna be captain obvious, but you can search the subject titles
at least with your browser (in case anyone doesn't know that). Adding some
kind of search capability is a good idea - one of those google "search this
site or internet" thingies maybe.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rotty's work did not have to be moved anywhere to be a Crane Pool Classick.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I just commented in the Bitch to the Admins forum that it would be nice to have a link to the archives at the top of the home page.

[Elster88]

There's one in the middle of the home page.

[Guest KC]

Sometime tonight, there will be only one link on top of the home page ... to
The Crane Pool Companion :-)

I better get to work now that I said that.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Elster - after much looking around, I found the link that you mentioned. Yes, it's there. But let's just say it doesn't jump off the page at you. Still, thanks for the heads up.

Kase - I'll look forward to seeing that

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Elster88 wrote: Not being able to search in the archives and not being able to steal code are two big flies in the ointment.

Not sure what you mean about not being able to steal code.

There's no quick cure for the search thing, unfortunately. It will help once the pages are spidered by Google, but that hasn't happened yet, and I have no idea when it will. Once it does, though, you could go to Google.com and, under Advanced Search, choose to select only from getalifealready.com.

It's possible that other search engines (Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc.) have already spidered the site; I haven't checked. If they have, and they have an option to search only one domain, then that would work too.

But since the archives are no longer in a database, and are simply HTML text files, the effort required to create a custom search function is too much for it to be feasible.

If anyone wants to check out other search engines to see if we're spidered, please let us know what you find.

[Guest KC]

There are java applets that are out there that will spider one site, I'll
research it.