November 09, 2004

The MoFi archives are back up! Warning: they're in plain HTML which means you can read 'em but not change 'em. But I wanted them up by the 17th, for obvious reasons. They're a bit hard to navigate because I see there's still errors. I just played around until I found ways to navigate by manually changing the URLs. Here's the main archive page.
posted by tracicle 20 years ago
  • Thanks, tracicle! I think I missed something. What is November 17th, besides my brother's birthday?
  • Hooray! For those of us who ride the short bus, what's special about the 17th? On preview: What Cali said, except for the brother bit.
  • November 17, 2003 Testing, testing, etc. There's a test metaphilter mofi up. Please go ahead and try it out, let me know what bugs you find, what you think of the colour scheme, and so on.
    As far as I'm aware, the features are the same as Metafilter: trackback; sidebar with new posts/comments since last login; general metafilter-like prettiness; an rss feed in case we're prolific enough to need one; and best of all, no admin go-between for posts. I'll be adding a tech/bug-related category to the topics as I have on the original mofi rather than make a separate MeTa-type page.
    posted by tracicle at 10:52AM UTC
  • Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
  • Sorry I missed that one. The site's gone all advertisement crazy now.
  • anybody else getting this message? The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parameter entity must be defined before it is used. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd'. Line 85, Position 2 %xhtml-prefw-redecl.mod;
  • the content-type: header is probably broken.
  • yup, it is. It says "text/plain" when it should be something like text/html.
  • You rock! Thanks!
  • Getting the same message as SideDush -- and no archive.
  • Me also no archivey. Lovely xhtml text, though.
  • Cat-scans? Here you go. Hurrah for Monkeybashi! Hurrah for Mofi! Almost a year old now. More bananas!
  • I can't figure out how to access anything. 34 is not only my userID, it's apparently also my IQ.
  • the_bone: try this. You then need to convince your browser that, yes, the files in these folders ARE text/html.
  • Richer, that link you just posted for the_bone still yields only the message SideDish noted abouve. So what am I doing wrong?
  • BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT USING FIREFOX YOU RIGHT-WING WACKO. or something. I don't know how Tracy & Michael did it, so I have no more idea.
  • (and it works in IE too here.. what browser/OS beeswacky?)
  • Safari on Mac looks fine. I don't know how Michael did it either. I'll ask him when he gets home.
  • Tracy: here, all pages except the one you posted give me raw markup, not rendered html. And Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/michaelh/lib/mephi/release/mofi/archive/01/archive.php on line 1, when I click on the second link's archive thing. Also, with the caching method I've suggested on mephi-fork-devel, I don't think we'd need static pages. Since, in fact, we'd be serving static pages almost all the time (always in closed threads). And, after all, you just posted the 99,999th comment to Mofi. a 100,000 row table is nothing to a RDBMS.
  • Richer, using IE Windows.
  • Windows XP.
  • I have no idea, then.
  • I get the error message, too (XP/IE.) But, even if I could see them, I'm really sad that they won't show up in the Archives link on the front page. It's kind of as though our collective memory has been put into photo albums that no-one will look at. (Plus, the presentation looks so, well, old fashioned. So sad! I'm sure it's the best, or only, way to restore them, but I do feel a sense of loss.)
  • Works fine for me. It would be nice it have it added to the current database but I can easily understand how that would suck-suck-suckity.
  • This is temporary, I think. Like I say, I wanted to get them back up but I know this way is flawed. I figure better something that mostly works now than waiting months for something only slightly better. I'm going to say now that the old threads will be closed off, just because I don't know for sure and it's better to be pessimistic.
  • I'm probably opening myself up to ridicule by admitting I use it, but the AOL 9 browser gets SideDish's error message as well.
  • Allll our lovely taglines. Gone. GONE! *falls to knees, weeping, raises fist to sky Curses to the gods of the computer
  • Allll our lovely taglines. I wouldn't think they were an especially scarce resource.
  • MonkeyFilter: I wouldn't think they were an especially scarce resource.
  • MonkeyFilter: I wouldn't think they were an especially scarce resource. I would have expected as much from an Englishman with a cricket bat. That's why I made the opening large, dumb, and porous. Everyone knows I love flashboy. But the next big war (OK, one of them!) will be Aus vs NZ in the cricket. Good luck, you guys, played well last time!
  • tracicle, using Windows XP/IE, I'm still unable to access this archive. Can you help?
  • *has a weird feeling of deja vu* I can't help; this is all Michael. I told him about the error last night and it is the problem Richer described. But he's all gung-ho about switching everything onto Smarty right now and we were fixing the new comments links last night instead. (It works on out test filter so the fix should be on here soon.) I really feel like we've had this exchange before, bees. It's weird.
  • Don't think we've discussed accessing this one before, tracicle. So perhaps it was some other problem? I am so technically inept it's quite possible. Can't think what it was at the moment, but likely I had some other problem reminding you of this. Thanks.