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lyric archive. let's make it work.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:05 am
by reve
ooookay.

So i grabbed all the html old lyric archive pages off uh. dumbrella. (thanks, wget!) I realize that a user-submitted db-driven model has been tried before (aarondek.com/archive); but now seems like a really good time to try such a beast again.

Fully indexed, searchable... come on. I reckon that'd be cool. Ideally, these should be cross-indexed to user entered user-pages, etc. I mean, it's cool that spud's pluggin' all that shizzle in, but what a pain in the ass.

Parsing all the old (lyric) data would be a pain in the ass, but not impossible. It seems like a shame to lose all that. Are there plans for such a beast in the works? I'll help/write the back end if not.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:09 am
by fluffy
But we <a href="search.php">have that now</a>...

Re: lyric archive. let's make it work.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:12 am
by bz£
reve wrote: So i grabbed all the html old lyric archive pages off uh. dumbrella. (thanks, wget!) I realize that a user-submitted db-driven model has been tried before (aarondek.com/archive); but now seems like a really good time to try such a beast again.
Yah, I did the same thing, and was thinking much the same thing. I may give this a shot one day if it doesn't just magically happen on its own.

(Guys, if you need more volunteer help with anything, I'm happy to help.)

Also, I want to start a post about how much I hate almost all of you, but I'm not sure which forum to put it in.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:30 pm
by frankie big face
please tell me there is a way to turn off these fucking avatars.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:49 pm
by JonPorobil
The old dumbrella board is staying up, but locked. You can still see your lyrics there, kids.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 12:53 pm
by fluffy
frankie big face wrote:please tell me there is a way to turn off these fucking avatars.
Get JB to install this: http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/classicz ... atures.txt

Then someone needs to also edit the page templates to support it.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:19 pm
by Spud
hey, there are at least three of you that I know of working on the same project (creating a database of the lyric archive and possibly the reviews as well). I will call a meeting next week to coordinate our efforts.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 2:33 pm
by erik
Generic wrote:The old dumbrella board is staying up, but locked. You can still see your lyrics there, kids.
rstevens, on the new Dumbrella board wrote:The old boards will not be deleted any time in the near future, but will be locked in a few days. You can still read and link to your favorite threads but you won't be able to add to them. This system should be a lot faster & more stable.
If they were staying up forever indefinitely, it would just say "The old boards will not be deleted". That board will be coming down sometime.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 6:38 pm
by JonPorobil
You win this round, Erik.

Neeeeexxxt Tiiiiiiime!!!!!!! :twisted:

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:26 pm
by Spud

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:42 pm
by king_arthur
The main heading for the Lyric Archive threads currently says: "Not for donations-- post those in the fight discussion forum." By "donations," do you mean the Lyric Mart thread?

If so, I think that one would fit better in the "collaborations" area, although I s'pose it would work to have people just post them to the prefight threads...

Just not sure what you mean by "donations," and I didn't see a new lyric mart thread anywhere...

Charles

Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 1:49 pm
by jb
Yes, lyrical donations is what it means.

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:37 pm
by reve
"The topic or post you requested does not exist," it tells me.

Eh?

Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 12:09 am
by Spud
I moved it, because it was in a thread that people couldn't reply to.

http://www.songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=69