I accessed Sutta Central today to find out that there were some modifications/changes made.
In the old version, I could clearly see the list of the Suttas in their order. But in the new version I cant see that but instead, they appear randomly.
Has Sutta Central taken down some of its content? Or have the functions become more sophisticated where I do not know how to access the content properly?
The new site has more content like various English translations.
It is a bit difficult for me to judge what you actually see and what is going on so if you still have issues, please upload a screenshot of the problem.
Gene, Iâm not sure what youâre describing. There is no login on the SuttaCentral site. Are you talking about this forum?
Nothing has changed in terms of the functionality of this forum, just the styling.
External links to the main SuttaCentral are currently broken, we are working to fix this.
As for the logout button problem, we will look into it, it is probably a bug with the new styling. But do you really need to log out? Normally youâd just leave it and it should be okay. I canât think of a reason to log out.
How should I describe , at the main page as screenshot by Vimala ,
There is a search function , e.g.searching for SA 294 , it doesnât direct straight to the sutta page of SA 294 .
If you know the ID for a sutta, by far the fastest and most effective way to get to that sutta is simply to write it in the URL. Search engines are optimized for searching text, not exact numbers.
Nevertheless, if you use the search engine currently and write the ID without spaces, it will give you the result you want.
It is harder to do this if spaces are included. For example how is a computer supposed to know that âanâ means âAnguttara Nikayaâ, not the English word âanâ? Still, we will try to make this work as well as we can.
If it uses the convention of quotation marks, it should be able to search for the string âAN 54.3â or whatever. Since that is a widely known and used convention, it could be quite intuitive to implement that perhaps?
Indeed, that is a good point. Blake is working on improving the search right now, and I will suggest he implements âquotes for literal stringsâ.
With these things, of course, it really depends on the internals of how the search engine is set up. On the main site, we use elasticsearch (based on Lucene), which is a very powerful piece of kit, but it canât do everything.
Fantastic! This will be invaluable - searching the PÄli for specific strings is very important for research for many people I am sure. Certainly for me, searching for all occurences of specific expressions or phrases, for example.
I think that search capabilities are one of the most valuable potential things about Suttacentral. To have a place where not only the material is available, but also searchable in a variety of ways, should turn it into the place to come for researching the PÄli. Even more so now that the PÄli Reader is not longer supported by Firefox, and is so complex to try to set up with old versions and so onâŠ
By the way there is another strange thing with Firefox on Mac on this forum. Sometimes command+F opens the normal Firefox search function, allowing one to search for terms on the page. But sometimes it opens the websiteâs search function which acts differently. I have not worked out what exact conditions make it do one rather than the other, but my intention is always to make it use the Firefox search function, since I regularly use that. It seems strange to make that keyboard shortcut have a different function on this website. It means I find myself going manually to the Firefox âedit menuâ to click âfindâ so that I can use Firefoxâs function.
Or maybe there is some reason for this which I am unfamiliar withâŠ
Discourse loads posts just in time and this is the reason that on longer threads (>10 posts) Ctrl+F is hijacked to invoke Discourse search which searches through the entire thread.
You can override this behaviour by pressing Ctrl+F twice but then you only get search results for posts loaded on page and not for the entire thread!
Hm, maybe you are showing your friend the D&D platform on her smartphone and log in the site only to find out you can not log out. Ever. Yes, even closing the tab, closing the browser or restarting the phone doesnât work (I have actually encountered this bug in action).
Fortunately the bug comes with the new material design: after selecting mobile view from the hamburger menu the scrollbars in the hamburger drop-down and in the avatar drop-down disappear. And with them the option to logout and to switch back to desktop view.
@anon85245511 Workaround is to switch to legacy theme, set the desktop view back on and then logout from the avatar menu.
Hi and I hope everyone is fine and happy. As long as I see the new site is awesome, congratulations and thank you so much to the developers, contributors and supporters.