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All this great content and their website is designed in a way that discourages people to peruse it. They really need a re-design and "relaunch" of their brand t

by butwhy 12y ago

All this great content and their website is designed in a way that discourages people to peruse it. They really need a re-design and "relaunch" of their brand to flaunt the great things that they're doing.

skbohra123 12y ago
At times, it's ok to appreciate the effort and keeping your valuable feedback for some other time.
Springtime 12y ago
It's true their site could be more navigable but they're doing the lord's work, so I let them off the hook. Contacted the Archive Team about a few sites that would be otherwise lost and they archived them, and will eventually be progressively be uploaded to IA. Great folk there as well.
wahnfrieden 12y ago
They have limited resources and already have a giant redesign in the works, according to Jason Scott.
weland 12y ago
Unlike most of the web 2.0 world, there is substantially more value in their content than in their design wizardry. It's a team with limited resources whose can barely keep up with the information they archive and is doing an impressive work, not at all devalued by the absence of some precious yetanothercrap.js.
Jgrubb 12y ago
You can't get to every single piece of functionality, but there's this -- https://archive.org/help/json.php https://archive.org/help/json.php -- and this -- https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php, which you can output as JSON/JSONP. For instance, this broken piece of shit was my attempt to do something about the LMA interface -- http://www.archive-ui.org/#/ http://www.archive-ui.org/#/. (select a show, reload the page, then it'll work. got busy and lost interest). The interface is as bad as you say, but at least they give us the ability to do something about it ourselves.
AznHisoka 12y ago
I for one could care less if they don't have TheLatestFad.js installed. Give me the data.

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All this great content and their website is designed in a way that discourages people to peruse it. They really need a re-design and "relaunch" of their brand t

by butwhy 12y ago

skbohra123 12y ago
At times, it's ok to appreciate the effort and keeping your valuable feedback for some other time.
Springtime 12y ago
It's true their site could be more navigable but they're doing the lord's work, so I let them off the hook. Contacted the Archive Team about a few sites that would be otherwise lost and they archived them, and will eventually be progressively be uploaded to IA. Great folk there as well.
wahnfrieden 12y ago
They have limited resources and already have a giant redesign in the works, according to Jason Scott.
weland 12y ago
Unlike most of the web 2.0 world, there is substantially more value in their content than in their design wizardry. It's a team with limited resources whose can barely keep up with the information they archive and is doing an impressive work, not at all devalued by the absence of some precious yetanothercrap.js.
Jgrubb 12y ago
You can't get to every single piece of functionality, but there's this -- https://archive.org/help/json.php https://archive.org/help/json.php -- and this -- https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php, which you can output as JSON/JSONP. For instance, this broken piece of shit was my attempt to do something about the LMA interface -- http://www.archive-ui.org/#/ http://www.archive-ui.org/#/. (select a show, reload the page, then it'll work. got busy and lost interest). The interface is as bad as you say, but at least they give us the ability to do something about it ourselves.
AznHisoka 12y ago
I for one could care less if they don't have TheLatestFad.js installed. Give me the data.