[mythtv-users] website feedback

David Scammell davescammell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 23:46:54 UTC 2009


2009/10/28 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:42 AM, David Scammell <davescammell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/10/28 Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com>:
>>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Richard Morton
>>> <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I know it has been a while since the new website went live; and I am
>>>> sure the devs are still hacking furiously at 0.22...
>>>>
>>>> I have been holding off on comments to let the changes to the website
>>>> sink in. Generally I like the site; the only thing I dont like is that
>>>> the footer stays on the page constantly reducing screen real-estate
>>>> unnessacarily. The way the header is present also means sometimes when
>>>> you click a link to a label on a page, the label/title of the section
>>>> gets obscured by the header. I think this is due to the CSS / layers
>>>> in use on the transparency; but I havent looked at the code.
>>>>
>>>> I have setup a few sites in my time in Mambo/Joomla and more recently
>>>> the fabulous Drupal - www.nafof.org.uk - sorry bit of a plug... and
>>>> have written apps in php a fair few years ago, so although my shell,
>>>> C++ and python isnt good enough to contribute (yet) I would be willing
>>>> to spend time on the website for myth.
>>>>
>>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> Plus one from me in terms of the footer /header. It makes the site
>>> almost unusable on a smaller res screen like the 1024x768 laptop I
>>> mainly use.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> On a web site related note, it appears to be down again this evening
>> (from the uk at least). Yesterday I began the 0.22 upgrade, only to
>> find I have 'database corruption', linked to utf8 tables in my
>> database. I was and am unable to grab the corruption_page that was
>> written to deal with this.
>>
>> Presumably there is a robots.txt file which prohibits google and
>> others from caching it, as I am unable to locate it in their cache. Is
>> there a reason why the wiki (maybe the whole website) isn't
>> crawlerable? Or maybe now is the time to seek someone willing to
>> mirror the website components of mythtv.org?
>
> I was able to access some wiki pages from google's cache yesterday
> when the site was down. I imagine they were all there, but  I was only
> looking at a few.
>
> Even when accessing google's cache, graphics and so forth (including
> stylesheets it seems) are still loaded from the original web server.
> Therefore the cache takes ages to timeout on those images. Clicking on
> "load text only version" solves this, although without the stylesheet
> it just don't look so purty!\
>
> I had a day at home with sick child yesterday and contemplated doing a
> big upgrade on backend and two frontends. However the difficulty in
> accessing the wiki and mailing list made me too nervous to do it.
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ah-ha okay, I'm new to using the cache so probably my mistake, thanks.

A mirror still might be a good idea and I need to read some more mysql
docs regarding character sets, upgrading this has me foxed so far.
cheers dave


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