Okay. This has been bugging me ever since I started coming here. But after spending 5 minutes searching for a particular article, it needs to be said.

Syd, your archival system sucks.

It's...well, I could go on for 3 paragraphs about WHY it sucks, but I'll shorten it up: It looks amateurish, it makes it very hard to find a specific article, it takes a long time to load the pages, there's no real way of knowing which page you're on anyways, and it completely fucking overwhelms people who want to look through your old stuff.

The format looks good for recent stuff, but for your older stuff, you should just have a single page with links, organized by whatever system seems good to you. Get GP to do it or something. But the way you have it now...a serious turn-off for new visitors.

And if your site keeps being written on bathroom chalkboards and all over small Canadian towns, you'll want to try and keep them here to read your stuff.

Syd Lexia wrote:

UsaSatsui wrote: The format looks good for recent stuff, but for your older stuff, you should just have a single page with links, organized by whatever system seems good to you. Can you be more specific as to what you mean? I've been using the exact same format since Day 1.

The format is fine, for your front page, The problem is that when the front page gets too full, you just make another one. It makes navigating the site frustrating.

Instead of having 5 (soon 6) pages completely unorganized except by the order in which you made the articles, you should organize your old articles so they're easier to find.

It wouldn't take a whole lot of work. While it's not what I would do, here is probably the easiest way to do it: Simply create a new page that lists (and possibly creates links to) what article is on what page. Call it the "archive" page. Link it from the front page. Bam. Can't be that hard...I know I can do it. Hell, if you want, I -can- do it, or at least try.

Also, I say limit the front page to 4 or 5 articles. When you add a new one, shunt an older one off to an archive page. This gives you a front page with the most recent stuff that's not too big.

Syd Lexia wrote:

Ah, I thought you were saying older articles were badly formatted.

Nope. Your format works fine. It's just damn near impossible to find anything.

(I was looking for the Taito article, by the way).

jprime wrote:

jprime wrote: Just memorize the order. Seriously, people, it's not that hard.

If you're joking, not funny.

If you're serious, let me prepare a list of 94 sentences for you. In a month, I'm gonna want you to recite them from memory, in order.

C'mon, man, Syd himself has trouble finding stuff on his site. Isn't that a hint?

SevereFlame wrote:

http://history.sydlexia.com/index.php?title=SydLexia.com_Archives So now, just sticky this page and you'll have access to the better archives!

And how does this help the casual visitor?