Notices by defanor (defanor@emacs.ch)

Noticed a redirect loop on the help.libreoffice.org website, but failed to find an appropriate address or page to report it (except for Bugzilla, which requires an account, and I see no "project" for the website there). Noticed a Mastodon contact though, maybe this will work. Or maybe somebody on Mastodon will point to an appropriate place to report #LibreOffice website issues? Either way, it should be better to write here than to ignore.

@libreoffice, <https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/sdatabase/dabawiz02pgsql.html> redirects to <https://help.libreoffice.org/en-US/noscript.html> with a meta refresh, which then redirects to <https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/main0000.html> with the "location" HTTP header, which redirects back to noscript.html, as the first one did, and the loop goes on.

As another minor website issue report, icons are broken if pages are not allowed to set custom fonts. Some contrast ratios (e.g., in the footer) are very low, some elements (e.g., operating system choice on the "download" page) do not fit into the areas dedicated for them and overflow awkwardly if minimum font size is set (to 16, for instance). Some content (e.g., on <https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/templates-and-extensions/>) is simply unavailable with JS off, while with JS on it is just hidden behind an unnecessary click.

@louis "cheese NOT toast" does not yield any results, though simply looking for "cheese" yields those with no "toast" in sight, and more than "cheese AND toast".

As for the interactivity, I enjoy proper lispy REPLs as well, but to be fair, with less interactive languages one probably would make the state needed for resumption persistent, and probably have fewer runtime exceptions: it would be odd to keep restating large-scale crawling on each adjustment.

How much space does the crawled data take, by the way? If it is not too big, maybe you could also organize something similar to Common Crawl for Gopher, by publishing that as a single dump. Not sure how useful that would be though, but would have been useful for this project if somebody else did it earlier.