Browse the archive by date?

[jericson]

One of the ways I used the WordPress blog was to find what changed in the early days of the site. For instance, I could find the blog post that described the changes to reputation payouts for questions and know more or less when that changed. But I also used it to find things the other way around. If I see something strange in the data at a particular time, I can often solve the mystery by searching for posts that month. The new blog doesn't seem to have that functionality. Would it be possible to implement some way to browse around a particular date?

[JonHMChan]

I see - do you usually do this by year then month? Or just emulate what's currently on WordPress?

[jericson]

Either way is fine. I do like the simplicity of the current archive.

Searching by date would be even better, I think. But it doesn't seem like that would need to be a first release feature or even necessarily worth a lot of time implementing.

[JonHMChan]

Okay, going to put this in as something we want to implement, but probably not a blocker for first release. I can see a path to doing this, it's just a bit more than trivial.

[NickCraver]

This can likely be re-visited now that I've done all the pagination in Ruby in PR #118 (the only way you can do it really) which means we can generate anything. If you sketch out an archive format, generating it should be much closer to trivial now - happy to help.