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hear · Sep 15, 2023

Axles/Differential

Body/Doors/Exterior

Brakes

Cooling

Electrical

Engine / Sensors

Frame

Fuel System

Hard top/Soft top

HVAC

Interior

Lifts/Tires

Lighting

Off-Road / Trail Mods

PCM Related

hear · Sep 15, 2023

Seats

Sound System

Steering/Suspension

Transfer Case

Transmission

Odds & Ends

MikeE024 · Sep 16, 2023

hear said:
cc: @Chris

I've been kind annoyed by how hard it is to find specific how-to guides on our little forum. We have some great content, but I find it hard to search, even using google. Maybe your google fu is stronger than mine, IDK. But w/o too much effort I extracted the links from the how-to subforum and attempted to classify them. My thinking was that it is easier to do a quick visual scan in a labeled subsection or a ctrl-F to find a specific word. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks so, I guess we'll see. At this point we don't get that much new content here so maintaining this shouldn't be super hard. I think I'm through page 8, with 3 pages to go to have them all moved into this index, so if you see something missing from page 11, that's why.

If you disagree with the classification of a topic, I can move it. Lots of topics span multiple categories, so I tried to go with the primary topic. Case in point is the guide on the 4WD light. Is that transfer case, electrical, lighting, or interior? I went with lighting, because I had to pick something. There are a bunch of others that weren't immediately obvious how to categorize, so I stuck them in the drunk drawer, confident that y'all would come out of the woodwork to tell me where they should be classified.

Anyway, I hope this helps. I know it will help me. And maybe it will save people from making duplicate how-to's. You probably didn't realize how many of those we had.

Enjoy, flame away.

Thanks so much for doing this!

hear · Sep 16, 2023

Glad somebody finds it useful besides me.

bbaldwin237 · Sep 16, 2023

This is incredible!

matkal · Sep 16, 2023

Thank you!

TokenJo · Sep 16, 2023

Wow, much easier to reference with. Thank you.

hear · Sep 16, 2023

TokenJo said:
Wow, much easier to reference with. Thank you.

So you felt the same pain. Good to know that it's either common or we're both stupid. Only time will tell.

Chris · Sep 16, 2023

Man, I owe you a beer, @hear! Job well done! How long did this take you?

hear · Sep 16, 2023

Chris said:
Man, I owe you a beer, @hear! Job well done! How long did this take you?

Honestly, not all that long. A better man would've written some code to scrape the links from the page, but I didn't consider that until after I had already categorized about 3 pages. It maybe took me 5-10 min/page to copy the link, paste it in another doc & categorize it. The python to convert them to bulleted links was near zero effort. Because I spent zero effort on the python, I had to manually paste each category into PyCharm and then run my script, then paste the output into the post draft. I got a pretty good flow going and did that in probably 30 minutes or so.

All told, I have a couple of hours invested, not including the time spent convincing you this was a good idea.

hear · Sep 16, 2023

I lied. It took me 16 minutes to rebuild the index from scratch. There's an xkcd comic about the ROI on automation, where it gives a grid of how long it takes to automate something vs how much time you save by automating x how often it needs to run. I'm still well into the positive ROI for the time being.

Also, @Chris I found these threads that somehow survived peer-review. There may be a couple of others that made it into the index before I decided to categorize these. I fully expect to crowd source the remaining quality/categorization issues.

https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/bank-1-lean-code-help.35500/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads...o-i-need-to-run-these-wheels-and-tires.34374/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/help-with-gear-mesh-contact-pattern.33765/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/97-tj-stalls-when-giving-it-gas.33074/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/will-a-4-0-from-a-98-tj-work-in-my-2004-with-a-2-4.31732/
https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/2004.28129/

Another lost jeeper:

1997 jeep wrangler frame

hear · Sep 16, 2023

And since I'll probably wonder how I did this, or if somebody else wants to do better....

Python:

import csv

with open('scratch_1.txt') as file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(file)
    print('[list]')
    for link in csv_reader:
        l = link[0]

        # the BBcode link needs the wranglertjforum domain prefix
        addr = l.replace('https://', '')
       
        # hygiene the human readable link
        s = l.replace('https://wranglertjforum.com/threads/', '')
        s = s.replace('-', ' ')
        s = s[:s.rfind('.')]

        print(f'[*][url="{addr}"]{s}[/url]')

    print('[/list]')

Chris · Sep 16, 2023

hear said:
Honestly, not all that long. A better man would've written some code to scrape the links from the page, but I didn't consider that until after I had already categorized about 3 pages. It maybe took me 5-10 min/page to copy the link, paste it in another doc & categorize it. The python to convert them to bulleted links was near zero effort. Because I spent zero effort on the python, I had to manually paste each category into PyCharm and then run my script, then paste the output into the post draft. I got a pretty good flow going and did that in probably 30 minutes or so.

All told, I have a couple of hours invested, not including the time spent convincing you this was a good idea.

Okay, I thought you had sat there and done this all by long process copy and paste. I was pretty taken aback. Now it makes more sense!

hear · Sep 16, 2023

Chris said:
Okay, I thought you had sat there and done this all by long process copy and paste. I was pretty taken aback. Now it makes more sense!

ha, no way. I only thought it would be a good idea because I could do it in a minimal amount of time. I might write a lambda function that looks for new links and alerts me when a new one shows up. I could probably programmatically add it to the index but I'm not interested enough to figure out the nuance of how.

Apparition · Sep 16, 2023

Chris · Sep 16, 2023

hear said:
ha, no way. I only thought it would be a good idea because I could do it in a minimal amount of time. I might write a lambda function that looks for new links and alerts me when a new one shows up. I could probably programmatically add it to the index but I'm not interested enough to figure out the nuance of how.

In any case, I appreciate it. It certainly does add organization to the forum which I am very big on.

Zorba · Sep 16, 2023

:This is fabulous. @Chris - can this be pinned to the top?

Chris · Sep 16, 2023

Zorba said:
:This is fabulous. @Chris - can this be pinned to the top?

It is

Danarch · Sep 16, 2023

This is awesome! Thank you very much.

ColoJeep · Sep 16, 2023

hear said:
Glad somebody finds it useful besides me.

THANKS !!!

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