Recent changes is getting swamped. I often find "junk" entries which
haven't been cleaned up some 12 hours after creation -- this did not
happen, say, 6 months ago.
The problem is that to catch up with the site, I (and other I presume)
need to load some 2,500 edits from Recent changes
That's over 1MB of HTML, it takes forever to load, and there's no
knowing how far back it goes.
This morning I had to load 1,500, then 2,000, then finally 2500 to find
my last edit.
We need something that lists from a particular date *forwards* for a
certain number of entires, as well as current behavious *back* from the
present.
What I sugest is this:
something that behaves in the opposite way to the "from date D, limit L"
syntax in the RC URL. This currently does:
"list up to L entries newer than date D, starting from the present and
going back toward older entries"
This always includes the most recent edit, but not necessarily the date
D edit if L is small.
I would like to be able to request:
"list up to L entries newer than date D, starting from *date D itself*
and going forward"
This would always include the date D edit, and not necessarily the most
recent edit if L is small.
Hope that makes sense. I don't mean that the list order should be
reversed -- date D would still be at the foot of the page, newer edits
at the top.
With this feature, I could go through these in 500-item chunks, starting
from when I logged off and working my way through.
A link on the Recent Changes page would be nice -- something that lists:
{number of edits as set in preferences} forwards from date marked at top
We'd be able to copy this link to bookmarks on logging off, and resume
from the same place next time
haven't been cleaned up some 12 hours after creation -- this did not
happen, say, 6 months ago.
The problem is that to catch up with the site, I (and other I presume)
need to load some 2,500 edits from Recent changes
That's over 1MB of HTML, it takes forever to load, and there's no
knowing how far back it goes.
This morning I had to load 1,500, then 2,000, then finally 2500 to find
my last edit.
We need something that lists from a particular date *forwards* for a
certain number of entires, as well as current behavious *back* from the
present.
What I sugest is this:
something that behaves in the opposite way to the "from date D, limit L"
syntax in the RC URL. This currently does:
"list up to L entries newer than date D, starting from the present and
going back toward older entries"
This always includes the most recent edit, but not necessarily the date
D edit if L is small.
I would like to be able to request:
"list up to L entries newer than date D, starting from *date D itself*
and going forward"
This would always include the date D edit, and not necessarily the most
recent edit if L is small.
Hope that makes sense. I don't mean that the list order should be
reversed -- date D would still be at the foot of the page, newer edits
at the top.
With this feature, I could go through these in 500-item chunks, starting
from when I logged off and working my way through.
A link on the Recent Changes page would be nice -- something that lists:
{number of edits as set in preferences} forwards from date marked at top
We'd be able to copy this link to bookmarks on logging off, and resume
from the same place next time