Re: Change in archive structure

Hmm, I might argue that the date a blog article is posted is of 
secondary importance to its content, e.g., I group my blog entries by 
subject: http://www.jroller.com/gmazza/entry/blog_article_index, date is 
largely irrelevant.  Wouldn't your tree view be more useful if it was 
broken up by category and blog articles underneath instead of by dates?

Another problem with emphasizing dates is that they make blogs look 
obsolete more quickly, because sometimes months go by at a time before 
someone blogs again, and a date archive then makes the blog look 
inactive.  Having lists by category gives a blog a much longer shelf 
life, and doesn't "punish" a blogger who maintains his older entries 
instead of just entering in new entries.

The blog archive page is probably seldom used today (you may be better 
off removing it), the tree view you're contemplating might be better in 
a side menu of a blog (just like here: http://coheigea.blogspot.com/ 
[1]).  A macro that would provide the data allowing something like [1] 
to be constructed would be a nice enhancement to Roller (but, actually, 
we may already be able to support that--I'm not sure.)  Patches to 
Roller JIRA welcome.

The current archive page *could* be useful if you're always blogging 
about a particular topic on a certain day of the week. If Wednesdays 
you're always blogging about X and Fridays always Y a calendar view does 
a better job of allowing someone to get to all "X" or "Y" articles 
better than the tree view in [1].

Regards,
Glen


On 12/06/2013 08:45 AM, Gaurav wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The archives which are now show as in calender. There are some 
> shortcoming of that is we can't see the whole list of blogs month and 
> year wise.
> There can have some sort of tree structure or we can have some 
> different macro, so we can redesign the archives page as user want.
>
> Tree Structure
>
> >2013
>     >Jan
>         >Blog1
>         >Blog2
>     >March
> >2013
>     >April
>         >Blg4
>
>
> Thanks
> Gaurav