The static archives for the (now closed) sc-users and sc-dev mailing lists are up here, complete with Google Custom Search : https://listarc.cal.bham.ac.uk
Sorry this took a little longer than I imagined, but please take a look and let me know if there are any issues.
Currently http, but https should come very soon, theyāre just sorting out certificates. I have not for the moment edited messages to correct author pasted links to other messages, or edited links in the auto-signatures. I may do this in the future, but itās a big job, and I wanted to get these available. The indices are all correct (I hope! ).
Enjoy browsing almost two decades of SuperColliding!
Unfortunately, the search is still suboptimal. I made a little test and tried to search for āVSTPluginā, but I only get 10 results and half of those are unrelated. For example, I get " Re: [sc-users] How to use SynthDescLib?" only because āVSTPluginā is in the title of the next thread. However, I see none of my actual release mails except for this one: Re: [sc-users] VSTPlugin v0.5.0 - final release!
I guess this is a problem with Google search and I donāt know if itās even possible to fix thisā¦
Yes, itās a Google issue, and weāve been trying to gradually tweak it. I gather indexing is an ongoing process, especially as producing a site map for tens of thousands of pages did not seem to be straightforwardly possible, at least without paying. So Iām hoping it will steadily improve.
I am not an expert on Google Custom Search though, so am happy to take any advice anyone has! Note at the moment that thread and date indices are excluded from the search results.
Is the archive available for download? I would like to archive it on my hard drive. I am preparing a PhD in musicology on live coding / live programming. Iām sure this archive could be useful to complete my sources about the history / dev of SC. I would totally understand if you were not willing to let people download it.
Um, Iām not sure about that. Although I realise anyone with a web crawler could do it, Iām not sure I am legally allowed to āgiveā it to people. GDPR is tricky.
This is great, thanks! Iām not sure how hard it would be to print the number of matches, and a ānextā button (plus previous, etc; the usual) to see the next set/page of search results.
An update: Iāve tweaked this, and managed to generate a sitemap. The coverage is now slowly climbing and is up to about 10K pages. There are 216K in the sitemap though, so it may take some time. Heading in the right direction though!
Okay, Iāve made a few tweaks to the search engine and added the new property. Unfortunately I had to delete the old one, which means that the crawl will have to start from scratch. So at the moment it returns no results but it should build gradually over the coming days and months.
I am doing this because this search method apparently provide more best matches (quantity as well) compared with the google box on the archive site. Some topics were quite difficult to find through this search box.
Is this also a matter of waiting for crawl to be finished?
I think so. I had asked for the http://wwwā¦ property to be removed, but it seems it still shows up in the global results. Iām not sure why. The custom search excludes them to avoid problems. Iām trying to get them to redirect.
Iāve set up the new indexing slightly differently, so Iām hoping this will get better coverage, but at 200k+ pages to index it will take some time to fully crawl.
: https://listarc.cal.bham.ac.uk