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    Suggestion: change the "archive" link text to "caches" ☶ meta
    pronoiac avatar authored by pronoiac 5 months ago | 8 comments

This came up in the ffmpeg 7.1 announcement thread: their server was overwhelmed, I pointed out the “archive” option, by the comment count, and someone else had the realization: “oh, that’s what it does”. I think changing the link text to “caches” would be more clear.

I went to file a new issue, but the text there:

Please discuss feature requests in the chat room or a meta thread before posting.

made posting this here, instead, sound preferable.

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      pronoiac avatar pronoiac 5 months ago

      Other alternatives:

      • mirrors
      • archives
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        dst avatar dst 5 months ago

        I think mirrors makes it more obvious what the intent is.

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          5d22b avatar 5d22b 5 months ago

          I agree, although I’m not sure that (e.g.) Wayback Machine is strictly a mirror, as it injects its own UI elements over the archives page.

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          sknebel avatar sknebel 5 months ago

          either one of those is IMHO nicer/more established than “caches”

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            5d22b avatar 5d22b 5 months ago

            I think “cache” is fairly well established (e.g., the Google Web cache), but it implies that the page is stored only temporarily, which is not the intent of e.g. Wayback Machine.

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          pushcx avatar pushcx Sysop 5 months ago

          This seems like an obvious improvement if someone would like to knock out the quick PR for it.

          And maybe worth noting there are open issues for improving site design, like porting to css grid.

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            pronoiac avatar pronoiac 5 months ago

            I made the PR - 1337, w00t, lol - with “caches”.

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              pronoiac avatar pronoiac 5 months ago

              Heh, I’ll go look at adding an “s” to make it “archives”. (I’m serious, but also amused.)