Categories don't show up if comments are Closed or None. Stick some text or whitespace between comments and the category, sheesh. And me and Earl think that purple is old. Free the #cccccc!
I love the category feature -- and yeah, broad categories = good. I'm trying to go back and retroactively assign categories to my old posts. I think in the long run it will be extremely useful as an indexing tool and will be neat to pull up a category and see every rW post since the beginning that relates come up. I know it's a huge task since there are 4,000+ rW posts, but I think it's a worthy project. But perhaps I'm alone in that opinion ...
Posts by user would be neat. I suspect it's possible, though I'm afraid it might be prohibitively resource intensive. In other words, movable type and/or our host might not be up to the task of rebuilding all those files in all the different ways we want. I'll play around tho.
why a special category called UK? why not one called US, which would comfortably encompass 95% of posts here? yuk. and i don't want a category called 'international' either. that's like the 'world music' section of certain record stores where you can find all the musicians who are not from english-speaking cultures.
i like the simplicity of the new page, but i think one of those newfangled "last x amount of comments left" boxes would be nice, maybe it would encourage more commenting.
That recent comments list is a very good idea, and high on my list. Here's a secret I'm keeping which features the latest 2 days of rW with the comments inline: http://randomwalks.com/today.php
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What category does this post belong to?
Posted by: sudama | February 21, 2003 12:13 AM
85.
I like the randomWalks category.
I don't think it's a question of number, just a matter of keeping categories nicely broad. Past that it depends simply on the breadth of what we post.
Posted by: nedlog | February 21, 2003 9:27 AM
Categories don't show up if comments are Closed or None. Stick some text or whitespace between comments and the category, sheesh. And me and Earl think that purple is old. Free the #cccccc!
Posted by: xowie | February 21, 2003 10:03 AM
I love the category feature -- and yeah, broad categories = good. I'm trying to go back and retroactively assign categories to my old posts. I think in the long run it will be extremely useful as an indexing tool and will be neat to pull up a category and see every rW post since the beginning that relates come up. I know it's a huge task since there are 4,000+ rW posts, but I think it's a worthy project. But perhaps I'm alone in that opinion ...
Posted by: zagg | February 21, 2003 11:45 AM
I think retro-indexing is great, but I might not be the one to do it.
Posted by: nedlog | February 21, 2003 1:58 PM
Is it possible to view all posts by poster?
Posted by: nedlog | February 21, 2003 3:16 PM
Posts by user would be neat. I suspect it's possible, though I'm afraid it might be prohibitively resource intensive. In other words, movable type and/or our host might not be up to the task of rebuilding all those files in all the different ways we want. I'll play around tho.
Posted by: sudama | February 21, 2003 5:14 PM
you can get a list of posts by author in the 'edit entries' mode using 'filter options'.
this may work: nedlog's posts
Posted by: xowus | February 22, 2003 7:43 PM
why a special category called UK? why not one called US, which would comfortably encompass 95% of posts here? yuk. and i don't want a category called 'international' either. that's like the 'world music' section of certain record stores where you can find all the musicians who are not from english-speaking cultures.
Posted by: gwen | February 23, 2003 11:30 AM
I also proposed NY, DC, and LA categories. The UK one is funny, so far.
Posted by: xoxie | February 23, 2003 12:34 PM
i like the simplicity of the new page, but i think one of those newfangled "last x amount of comments left" boxes would be nice, maybe it would encourage more commenting.
Posted by: lia | February 23, 2003 2:31 PM
That recent comments list is a very good idea, and high on my list. Here's a secret I'm keeping which features the latest 2 days of rW with the comments inline: http://randomwalks.com/today.php
Posted by: sudama | February 23, 2003 2:40 PM