Strategy Index Discussion

[Edi]

All Strategy Index links except one have been updated. The single link that has not been updated is marked as such and the reason is that it only had three letter words in the title, which means the search function won't find them because they are too short. If someone finds the "Any Man Advice" thread on the forum, kindly post the link here so it can be added.

I also added several new threads to the index that I found during my digging for the listed threads. Those are marked as new threads on August 12th.

You may now commence worshipping me.

[lch]

Originally Posted by Edi

If someone finds the "Any Man Advice" thread on the forum, kindly post the link here so it can be added.

I have searched for exactly that and instantly found it: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=34294
Remember, use quotes if you are searching for a specific phrase.

[Edi]

Originally Posted by lch

I have searched for exactly that and instantly found it: http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=34294
Remember, use quotes if you are searching for a specific phrase.

I did that with several threads, but it kept giving me flaky results or no results at all, so I lost interest in checking for things if I couldn't find them with some other keywords. That one was the only one I didn't eventually find. It took four and a half hours to find everything in any case.

Originally Posted by Kristoffer O

Edi, have you looked at the shortlist? It is in a sad state. I mentioned it briefly in the thread on forum discussion, but I'm not sure if Mindi has noticed. It would be good if the formating could be redone automatically, without you going through everything. I imagine I would not use it as it looks atm.

Yes, I have. Both the bug shortlist and the modding wishes shortlist are next up for rehabilitation. It looks like the forum conversion just converted straight HTML and didn't do a good job of it either. So it probably needs a manual edit to add the list and color tags. The color tags are easy, they can be done with a straight find and replace, but I need to look at the list item issues first.

I'll do the unresolved sections first and then fix the resolved sections at a more leisurely pace. I just gave the strategy index a more immediate priority because it is widely used by almost everyone in the community. The FAQ formatting is on the list of things to do once the shortlists are good.

[lch]

Originally Posted by Edi

It looks like the forum conversion just converted straight HTML and didn't do a good job of it either.

That might be because the old forum software just placed HTML in some cases, or similar unusual constructs. Quotes got replaced by a combination of two or three tags which carried the visual representation on screen, for example, instead one sensible tag like the forum does now, which is only replaced in the rendering step of the page.

That you convert all the broken links by hand, yeah, crazy, I wouldn't lift a finger unless it can be done in a unified way with all the links simultaneously. Hopefully searching for text with quotation marks helps you a bit.