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I agree with the general sentiment of this thread. This redesign was not needed in the first place. The new website is incredibly slow to load, and the infinite

I agree with the general sentiment of this thread. This redesign was not needed in the first place. The new website is incredibly slow to load, and the infinite scrolling thing absolutely sucks. While I can see all my uploads with the old(better) website, the new one doesn't seem to work. Just says "Fetching more results", and then nothing happens. With the tabs, if I try to list my uploads by, say, text, it reloads the page and switches the tab to collections, and then I have to click the Uploads tab again to see the filtered results. Same when I remove a filter. Even on my workstation computer with a nice overclocked CPU, I can see the CPU usage jump to the top whenever I load the site. The website takes 19.90s to load with cache disabled, with ~200 requests and 6.5MB of data transferred. The older website takes 4.21s to load, with 18 requests and 280KB of data transferred, in contrast. Meanwhile, features like the ability to playback WARC files that are uploaded by users don't seem to be getting any attention, but a feature like that would make so much sense for a site like the Internet Archive. I can see they provide a player for media files, why not provide something for WARC files too, then? As a heavy user of the site, the redesign(at least at the current state) will only ever hinder my experience, I can't see it being helpful in any way.

db48x 12y ago
A WARC might have been put into the Wayback Machine; do a search there for the url. Failing that, there are proxies you can run locally that let you access the content of a WARC as if you were browsing the original site. https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox is even by IA themselves, so clearly they're working on it. A viewer that let you browse the contents of a WARC the same way you can do for a zip would be really nice, but it's probably a separate project from redesigning the site. In fact, browsing zip files (and a bunch of other similar file types, of course) was added only a few months ago.
- asaddhamani 12y ago
  True, the WARC file might have been included in the Wayback Machine, but I meant something different. I'm specifically interested in the ability to specify which WARC file I want to play back. I think an example would be better than me trying to explain it. Have a look at https://webrecorder.io https://webrecorder.io, it lets you play back any WARC or ARC file, you just have to provide the URL. I know this is outside the realm of a redesign, but if IA could add something like this, it would be a big UX improvement.

db48x 12y ago

A WARC might have been put into the Wayback Machine; do a search there for the url. Failing that, there are proxies you can run locally that let you access the content of a WARC as if you were browsing the original site. https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox https://github.com/internetarchive/warcprox is even by IA themselves, so clearly they're working on it. A viewer that let you browse the contents of a WARC the same way you can do for a zip would be really nice, but it's probably a separate project from redesigning the site. In fact, browsing zip files (and a bunch of other similar file types, of course) was added only a few months ago.

asaddhamani 12y ago
True, the WARC file might have been included in the Wayback Machine, but I meant something different. I'm specifically interested in the ability to specify which WARC file I want to play back. I think an example would be better than me trying to explain it. Have a look at https://webrecorder.io https://webrecorder.io, it lets you play back any WARC or ARC file, you just have to provide the URL. I know this is outside the realm of a redesign, but if IA could add something like this, it would be a big UX improvement.