revOnline

[J. Landman Gay]

Mark Wieder wrote:
> All-
> 
> The new revOnline browser is a bit of a mystery to me. Over on the
> left there's a kind of filter and I've figured out how the filtering
> works, although (nudge, nudge, wink to the rev team) it would be more
> useful if the various keywords also displayed how many entries I could
> expect to find in each category. But the keywords themselves (I'm
> assuming that's what they are) are in some random order and there
> doesn't seem to be a way to sort them alphabetically or otherwise.
> Right now they just read like free association poetry:
> 
> files blur sepia resize
> 
> They're not grouped by any structure that makes sense to me. I suppose
> I'm assuming that the organization does make sense to somebody...
> 

They are a compilation of all the keywords that contributors assign to 
their stacks. When I first saw the new RevOnline there were only a 
handful of "categories". Now there are dozens in no particular order. It 
is bound to get worse. It would probably be better to store free-form 
keywords from contributors for searching, but only allow pre-defined 
categories for the left-hand list.

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