Implement pages for date-based navigation

[novoid]

At the top of each temporal page, there is an ISO date whose elements (year, month, day) is a clickable link. So far, the browser is able to display the folders within those link destinations if the web server is configured such (directory list permission).

In future, there should be beautifully generated pages by lazyblorg that show a nice list of items for the corresponding level.

• really do list all temporal articles of a whole year?

• alternatives:

  • number of articles of that year
  • links to all months including their total number of temporal articles

• link non-hidden non-temporal pages as well

[novoid]

Depends on outcome of #51

[xeruf]

And I guess with this one could also create previous/next post links for each blog article so they can be clicked through chronologically?

[novoid]

And I guess with this one could also create previous/next post links for each blog article so they can be clicked through chronologically?

I'm not sure about that. It's not always to define what's the next and previous article. How to handle updated temporal articles? Use their initial timestamp or the timestamp of their latest update? How about persistent articles that got frequent updates?

The only method I can think of is using initial timestamps only but I guess that would conflict with some user expectations.

Furthermore: the only reason for a next/previous article navigation I can think of now is serendipity. And for that, I tend to think of other approaches like: "articles published on that day of the year in other years", "similar articles based on keywords or tags", ...

What do you think?

[xeruf]

I would always use the initial timestamp, and only show that for temporal pages.

[novoid]

Yes, this is a viable approach.

However, my personal priority is higher for the other approaches mentioned above before implementing this previous/next feature.