new thread
I've decided to change the way archives are managed. The attached link goes to the new archive area. Rather than indexing each message, all messages in a thread are linked together. When you click on a "hit" you get the entire thread. I see a variety of advantages to this scheme, some of which are advantages to me and invisible to you all:
The overhead of the message processing has been removed.
Since the whole thread is in one document, you can peruse the whole thread at a time without having to traverse the thread tree.
Documents are smaller resulting in faster access/less bandwidth.
Reindexing goes much faster, so it won't time out like the existing archive does.
Extraneous links are removed, avoiding confusion and creation of hidden threads.
Please access this archive if you are a regular/occasional user of the archives, and give me some feedback on it. Does it work well? Would you suggest any changes? Do you see any problems?
Note that the threads currently indexed are as of a snapshot from a few days ago, so current messages will not be in this archive.
I will be the first to respond to my own message.
There is a problem in that the link associated with the text following "In Reply to" is not valid. I will remove these links in the next release.
OK. I lied. Fixed in the aforementioned next release is the date logic. The new archive tool now uses the date/time of the original post in the resulting hit list.
The bad links problem will be fixed in a future version.
The new archive works absolutely fantastic!!
-Jen
Seems to work fine.
Are there some cases, though, that one could not find the particular response they are looking for? For example, if the title of the response was different from the title of the message which began the thread?
Other than that, it is much faster.
Do you have an example of such a case? Methinks it would still be found, since the new subject is included in the text of the thread itself.