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is global search going to be included in the first release?
will the new version continue to produce the symbiocard.xml, image & keywords XML?
will an internal global search also include all existing legacy sites?
Our plans for the search feature revolve around ‘Symzio’. We will focus on this as the next phase of the project once Symbiostock is released. The logo for the new search engine is visible on the front page of Symbiostock.org.
The new version does not produce that data, but we will see if it is necessary for future versions.
Due to incompatibility between databases, the legacy sites will not be included in Symzio. It is going to be directly plugged into the new Symbiostock and will require advanced features that are programmed directly into the plugin.
Our plans for the search feature revolve around ‘Symzio’. We will focus on this as the next phase of the project once Symbiostock is released. The logo for the new search engine is visible on the front page of Symbiostock.org. The new version does not produce that data, but we will see if it is necessary for future versions. Due to incompatibility between databases, the legacy sites will not be included in Symzio. It is going to be directly plugged into the new Symbiostock and will require advanced features that are programmed directly into the plugin.
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the whole POINT of the XML and CSV files for symbiocard, images and keywords was that there was no need for databases to interact — without these files how will you gather & process info from dozens of different sites & hubs?? this is a basic design question, not something to be put off until later. the basic philosophy of symbiostock was to make the data available for anyone with ideas on how to use, present and interpret it; without that flexibility and openness it will be a LONG time before any new ‘version’ attracts the 150+ sites that we already had; seems a pity to throw away 2 years worth of progress for a vague promise of better things to come
perhaps you should take a path like leo’s grfx and come up with a completely different name for the project, since the new version appears to be unrecognizable as ‘symbiostock’
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