DD Social Thread (v1)

**james438** · 11-20-2012, 06:17 PM

I'd still like to know how old that review was. The author is apparently no longer part of about.com.

**bernie1227** · 11-20-2012, 06:35 PM

I'd say its quite old though, as it was referring to modern browsers as being some early ie and Netscape.

**djr33** · 11-20-2012, 08:41 PM

Another option would be to see if they'd do another review. Not sure how to go about that, though.

**bernie1227** · 11-21-2012, 03:42 AM

I somehow doubt th result will be that much different. There's a lot of very high quality scripts, but a lot of ones that don't even work in modern browsers.

**djr33** · 11-21-2012, 03:47 AM

That's true, but it's focusing on the negative-- if someone took the time to look around for the good parts of the site, they might write a much more positive review. It's all about perspective.

The fact that DD has outdated scripts is really most of what that review focused on-- and it's entirely true. But I don't think the quality of the site is somehow lower just because there are outdated scripts; instead, it's actually probably higher because the old scripts are still there for support (I know this is why ddadmin keeps them around).

But... putting a "deprecated" notice would not hurt anything and would help point the reviewer in the right direction.

**bernie1227** · 11-21-2012, 04:33 AM

What about the ones that don't work at all? Do we still need them there?

**djr33** · 11-21-2012, 04:41 AM

They're not there to be used-- they're there for people who are already using them, for support. Of course there's also a limit to how much support we'd have available for them.

If you want a project, consider contacting ddadmin to go through the scripts to find the ones that don't work and to suggest replacements-- the text on the pages could be grayed out (but not removed-- if someone has a question about the old script) and then a link could be added to "please use this instead". It sounds reasonable to me, but you'd have to check with him of course.

**traq** · 11-21-2012, 04:54 AM

I think we need to clean out the attic, as it were. Get bad stuff out (or into storage, at least

) and good stuff in.

**keyboard1333** · 11-21-2012, 05:02 AM

I have to agree with traq on this one...
If a script doesn't work (in modern browsers), I don't really think we need to keep it on the main page (maybe an archive instead?).

**bernie1227** · 11-21-2012, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by djr33

They're not there to be used-- they're there for people who are already using them, for support. Of course there's also a limit to how much support we'd have available for them.

How many people use scripts that don't work?