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Design of This Website (2021)

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Re: Design of This Website (2021)

#11
post #8

Try this 1. Click on the article link and land on the "Design of this website" page. 2. Now click on "Site" on the left navigation to go to "About" page. 3. Click the back button on the browser See what you get :)

It works normally for me. I'm on a desktop computer. What is happening in your case?

Re: Design of This Website (2021)

#13
post #8

Try this 1. Click on the article link and land on the "Design of this website" page. 2. Now click on "Site" on the left navigation to go to "About" page. 3. Click the back button on the browser See what you get :)

It works normally for me. I'm on a desktop computer. What is happening in your case?

For me, on Chrome/Mac, I get the previous About page as a popup that I have to explicitly dismiss. May be it is just me :o

Re: Design of This Website (2021)

#18
post #2

It’s a truly distinct and amazingly designed website that I’m often not smart enough to understand. It’s a unique property on the Net, and that’s saying a lot these days. One thing I would like to understand more is the archive system (used to reduce the problem of dead links). Is there some kind of automated process to create local copies of the linked webpages, or is it done by hand using some thing like wget or cu…

There is some info about archiving here: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs

Lots of jobs and scripts, plus usage of archive.org as well. It's an interesting read.

Re: Design of This Website (2021)

#19
post #2

It’s a truly distinct and amazingly designed website that I’m often not smart enough to understand. It’s a unique property on the Net, and that’s saying a lot these days. One thing I would like to understand more is the archive system (used to reduce the problem of dead links). Is there some kind of automated process to create local copies of the linked webpages, or is it done by hand using some thing like wget or cu…

There is some info about archiving here: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs Lots of jobs and scripts, plus usage of archive.org as well. It's an interesting read.

Just what the doctor ordered. Thank you.

Re: Design of This Website (2021)

#20
post #4
post #2

It’s a truly distinct and amazingly designed website that I’m often not smart enough to understand. It’s a unique property on the Net, and that’s saying a lot these days. One thing I would like to understand more is the archive system (used to reduce the problem of dead links). Is there some kind of automated process to create local copies of the linked webpages, or is it done by hand using some thing like wget or cu…

Web archiving goes pretty deep, actually. I have no idea what this site uses but the open source tools maintained by the Webrecorder project are rad.

Thanks for that reference. I didn’t know about it until you posted. Note to downvoters: that was a sincere comment.
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