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Will anyone miss the "Related" sidebar?

Breck_Carter
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on ‎2010 Mar 24 8:52 AM

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The "Related" sidebar appears when you display an existing question in SQLA. It contains a list of titles for other questions that the underlying software believes are related to this one... in other words, it is a "Related Questions" list.

I am going to get rid of the "Related" sidebar, unless I hear strong objections.

Here are my reasons:

(1) It's not a very useful list; personally, I have never used it, but... that's not the main reason...

(2) I believe the existence of that list on each question page is causing Google to generate false hits... it finds some matching text in the "Related" list and thinks the containing question is a match. You can read more about this topic here: http://sqlanywhere-forum.sap.com/questions/535/why-does-google-return-hits-based-on-the-list-of-rela...

Dumping the "Related" list won't solve all of Google's problems, but waving a dead chicken over the keyboard has not accomplished anything.

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Breck_Carter
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‎2010 Mar 24 9:15 AM
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I just noticed the "Related" sidebar does not appear for this question... that's not my doing! It might be that the underlying software takes time to index new questions.

reimer_pods
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‎2010 Mar 24 9:20 AM
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I won't miss it. For me the list shows topics that are as much relevant as the hits of the internal search I've tried. Not want I would want to see (in other words: crab). But you could try waving a dead rabbit over the keyboard (Easter is coming...)

reimer_pods
Participant
‎2010 Mar 24 9:22 AM
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My screen shows a "Related" sidebar, but maybe that's becaus I didn't have a dead chicken available.

VolkerBarth
Contributor
‎2010 Mar 24 9:29 AM
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I have looked at "Related" now and then (and sometimes wondered what makes those questions related:), so I would not call this feature absolutely useless. However, it's not critical to me, particularly if it is responsible for the suboptimal search results. - I would recommend to (temporarily?) disable/drop the list to see if that fixes the problem.

VolkerBarth
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‎2010 Mar 24 9:31 AM
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Still strange and unsatisfying that there are no comments to your SX question yet. - I hope it's not because of too much ranting against the "nannies"...

former_SQLA_member1694880
Participant
‎2010 Mar 24 9:58 AM
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I don't think I'll miss it ;).

thomas_duemesnil
Participant
‎2010 Mar 24 11:04 AM
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Me too. Drop it.

Breck_Carter
Participant
‎2010 Mar 24 1:06 PM
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@Reimer: You still see it because I haven't dropped it yet 🙂

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Breck_Carter
Participant
‎2010 Mar 25 10:25 AM

Ok, it's gone... we'll see what happens.

For the record, the following code was added to SQLA's <HEAD> section; the "related-questions" line is the one that's relevant to this discussion:

<style>
#bootstrap-module { display: none; }
#bootstrap-guide { display: none; }
#bootstrap-details-module { display: none; }
#related-questions { display: none; }
</style>
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VolkerBarth
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‎2010 Mar 25 10:33 AM
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At the moment they still show up... (Firefox 3.6.2 if that matters)

VolkerBarth
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‎2010 Mar 25 10:38 AM
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...and your code is shown as the first line on each page. So I guess it is not set correctly - but don't ask me where or how it has to be coded - I don't have any experience with that.

VolkerBarth
Contributor
‎2010 Mar 25 12:02 PM
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@Breck: As display is a CSS property AFAIK, shouldn't it be put inside as .css file or inside a <style></style> block?

reimer_pods
Participant
‎2010 Mar 25 12:14 PM
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I don't see "Related Questions" anymore (FF 3.6.2). And it looks like opening a question is faster than before (at least 57 milliseconds) 😉

Breck_Carter
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‎2010 Mar 25 12:24 PM
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You guys are quick... yes I forgot the style tags, I'm CSS-challenged, I still don't understand why I can't use <blink> 🙂

VolkerBarth
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‎2010 Mar 25 1:08 PM
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@Breck: Looks better - and google seems to return better results now (though I would not expect the indexed pages to be re-indexed in the interim). Glad you re-tagged - hope this site is doomed to be successful.

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