Hi David,
And I was just getting used to the old site ;) Just kidding, this is wonderful 
news! Glad to see RCRchive improving. And you know me ;) I jumped right over 
to check it out. 

A quick couple of "spots":

* The voting drop-down and button is where I'd expect the comment submit 
button to be. I almost clicked on it to submit my comment. The voting 
controls should be up by the poll results, took me second to realize where 
they were. Maybe you could slide the pole all the way up top beside the rcr 
itself, and have the controls just underneath.

* Speaking of the voting I think the options are upside down. Favor should be 
on top and opposed on bottom --me thinks.

* Comments are centered? Or pushed to the right? Well whatever it is it does 
look a bit odd.

* I would like to be able to edit my comment after the fact. True wiki style 
did have some advantages, this among them.

* Comments run together. They need some type of division. It's also harder to 
comment to a specific comment. But maybe that's okay. But again, true wiki 
style does have some advantages.

* It would also be nice to change one's vote (if one were to change one's 
mind ;)

* Also it's running slow :(

* lasly, I think you mentioned this, but HTML is not being rendered. Will we 
need to go back and fix up? We can still go back and fix up the RCRs, yes?

HTH.

All in all it's looking on the up and up. Great work David! Thanks.
--T.



On Tuesday 26 October 2004 04:23 pm, David A. Black wrote:
| I am very pleased to announce the opening of the new, rewritten
| RCRchive, still at http://www.rcrchive.net.  The new RCRchive
| is a complete rewrite in Rails.
|
| Your old username and password should still work.  Ruwiki format
| is still used for input, though the interface is less wiki-like
| than it was (you just enter your own comment; you don't edit the
| whole sequence of comments).
|
| The underlying RCR process has not changed, and as you'll see, the
| basic functionality of the new RCRchive is fairly similar to that
| of the old.  But I think it will be more stable and consistent in its
| behavior.
|
| I've ported all the data over from YAML and Ruwiki files to a MySQL
| database.  Everything should be there, though the existing comments
| for any given RCR do not have their authors' names preserved (they
| were split out from wiki text).  However, this should not matter much,
| as they tended to be explicity signed (it was a wiki) or not (it was
| a wiki :-)  In fact, I've retained a bit of the wiki "look": comments
| are still displayed as a single block.  So if you want people to know
| who wrote your comment, put your name.  (Authorship is however
| recorded in the database.)
|
| I am very aware of the non-validity of much of the XHTML code on the
| site.  At least some of this has to do with the inconsistency of tag
| usage in comments.  If anyone has ideas for how to normalize a site
| like this automatically (including the existing data), I'll listen.
| Meanwhile I would like to hear from anyone who has accessibility
| issues with the site.
|
| I hope you enjoy the new RCRchive.  Let me know if you have questions
| or spot problems.
|
| David