[ANN] slotmachine iPhone was scrolling wheel

[J. Landman Gay]

On 10/10/10 4:47 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
> On 10/10/2010 19:16, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>>
>> I think the best repository would be the one provided by RunRev --
>> RevOnline. Everyone has access to that and sharing stacks and code is
>> its main intention.
>>
> That may be its main intention- but it does a pitifully poor job of it.
>
> It currently has 225 entries, in about 90 categories (I guess they're
> tags, not categories, I think). Which tag would I use to find, say,
> Scott's scrolling list ? (OK, I'd start with "Awesome", but after that,
> I'm not sure :-)

"Mobile" I guess. Or "Rossi". Only I don't think he's uploaded anything 
there yet.

>
> Why they had to remove the old RevOnline feature of allowing us to
> search by author is totally beyond me.

I just typed my name in there and all my stuff came up. But it's true 
that search also brings up entries that happen to contain someone else's 
name, so yes, it isn't specifically an author search.

> Why they didn't preset the list of categories is a mystery.

Yeah. I wish they had. Or at least alphabetize the tag list.

> I'm sure there were other issues with the new version of RevOnline, but
> I can't log in to try it out properly.

I'm not sure why, but a note to support should fix it.

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