[mythtv-users] website feedback

[Nick Rout]

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.