Don't Delete, Version
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of versioning. And I don’t mean versioning in the programming sense, although I really need to figure out Subversion one of these days. I’m referring to content management systems.
I don’t know why but deletion just bugs me. Maybe its my pack rat mentality but to delete is to lose. I write blog entries all the time that don’t get published and sometimes I completely rewrite them losing past versions. This seems more important in CMS’s where content evolves and sometimes needs to be step back. From what I’ve experienced this isn’t easy, or even an option in most cases.
Is this a needed feature? Wiki’s do a fantastic job of this. Writeboards by 37Signals are a great example (love the compare feature). But how often do you see a site managed by a Wiki or a Writeboard? I’d like to know your thoughts.
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Kak Gavno Ya
My wiki has a stepback option, but it gets used very seldom. But the Writeboard looks like it has real possibilities.
Bryan
I think this is a good idea, and definately something worth thinking about.
PS. Love the site. Haven’t seen it since it was in it’s graph stage.
Paul Haine http://joeblade.com
I have no comment on this particular post, but I just wanted to tell you that your comment form is not working - after the form submits, it leads to a page saying ‘Application Error (Rails)’
Brooks
I think it would be nice, particularly with a Weblog CMS, to provide at least the capability to preserve previous versions of postings, whether they be earlier drafts of an unpublished post or earlier versions of a published one. Unlike a wiki, you wouldn’t necessarily need to allow the readers of the blog to view older versions, but they could definitely come in handy for the author(s) by allowing comparisons and rollbacks.
Nathan Borror http://www.playgroundblues.com/
I think I like keeping it in the background like Brooks eluded to. I don’t think readers would find its value as much as content creators.
Side Note: Sorry for the “App Error” pages. They sneak in once in a while and I’m doing my best at hunting them down. A lot of them are attributed to FastCGI :( Someone please speed the development of SCGI :)
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