Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:29:55AM -0400, Karl Fogel wrote: >> The reverse chronological order is because one is somewhat more likely >> to look for a recent thread. I.e., it's the same reasoning by which >> 'bzr log' output is reverse chronological. > > I find it a bit tricky to read but maybe that's just me; I'm used to > threads going down in time, not up. But I will try using them more. Do give it a try. A common use case (for me, anyway) is that I've just posted something, or seen a post go by, and I want to write something new that references it. Currently, I can just go to the archive and the post I want will usually be right there on the first page, or at most on the second page. That's a huge win. >> The lack of per-month indexing is just because I never saw what the >> point of per-month indexing is :-). Especially once we have search >> (well, we have external Google search right now, but I mean dedicated >> search functionality limited to the specific list archive -- see >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-registry/+bug/397673). > > The problem is that there's no way to figure out what paging you should > do. If you have an idea of when the message was sent you can usually > find it in per-month-indexed archives, but with the Launchpad archive > you can only guess page numbers. Hmm, yes. This is less clear of a win; maybe it's even a lose :-). One the one hand, having per-month indexes often introduces one more page to click through before you can get to a recent message (see above about jumping to recent posts). On the other hand, if the message you want is from the distant past, you have to do a binary search to find out what page it's on, instead of just jumping to the month you know it was sent in. MHonArc does offer a per-month option (...which makes me wonder if we could have *both* simultaneously?) I can't remember if it breaks threads that cross month boundaries or not; I think it doesn't (unlike some other archivers). If we find people are having a hard time with the current indexing, and that doing binary searches is no fun, we can switch over to per-month indexing -- it won't affect the message URLs. But most of all I'd like to get search, which solves everything. -Karl
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