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    Posted: March 07 2010 at 11:49
I thought i'd come with some suggestions to improve this site.

What annoys me the most is the seach function on this forum. To only search within the topics is really crap! I used to be able to seach for any word within a discussion, but after that was taken away, so did i basically..
I think this forum is so comlex as it is (too complex really). See how nice progressiveears.com is for instance - it's easy to find everything, and you can seach for anything you want.

So please get a proper seach function!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 11:59
Originally posted by pgryphon pgryphon wrote:

I . See how nice progressiveears.com is for instance - 


You gotta be kidding.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:03
the forum search functions are crap? A little more respect please ...
we already had such a function you remark .. disabled because of server problems when it caused too much delay here and there ...
no wonder by the way because there are a lot members here ... crap or not crap Wink



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:03
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by pgryphon pgryphon wrote:

I . See how nice progressiveears.com is for instance - 


You gotta be kidding.


LOL

You know, you stand a much better chance of being heard if you tone down the aggression. Putting a request in the terms you put yours is just a tad rude.



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:06
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by pgryphon pgryphon wrote:

I . See how nice progressiveears.com is for instance - 


You gotta be kidding.


I do like the review-section on progarchives by all means, but i just get lost by the 50 (or something) various forum-sites there are here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:08
Originally posted by pgryphon pgryphon wrote:

Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by pgryphon pgryphon wrote:

I . See how nice progressiveears.com is for instance - 


You gotta be kidding.


I do like the review-section on progarchives by all means, but i just get lost by the 50 (or something) various forum-sites there are here.

But progressive ears fotums are a complete mess aren't they?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:11
I am a member of ProgEars too, and finding a thread once it's dropped off the front page can be next to impossible. However, their members like things that way, and we like things the way they are here. Personally, I prefer to have sections rather than all the threads lumped together, but that's just me. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:29

To seach in the body of the posts use the Google search from the main PA front page and select "forum":

 
 
...it's not perfect, but it works.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:30
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 12:53
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

To seach in the body of the posts use the Google search from the main PA front page and select "forum":

 
 
...it's not perfect, but it works.

 
I didn't know that worked in the forum, so that's great! Thanks you very much!


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^ Well dip me in vinegar , cover me in breadcrumbs and call me a silly halibut. I've been here for 2 years and didn't know that function existed.Embarrassed
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 15:25
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

^ Well dip me in vinegar , cover me in breadcrumbs and call me a silly halibut. I've been here for 2 years and didn't know that function existed.Embarrassed


Because you never search for song or album titles in order to play all those games in JFFWinkLOL!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 15:28
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

^ Well dip me in vinegar , cover me in breadcrumbs and call me a silly halibut. I've been here for 2 years and didn't know that function existed.Embarrassed

A lot of people don't. I think that's a problem. 

Just sayin'


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 15:29
this deserves a second Lamp


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 16:04
Personally I wouldn't have minded the forum to contract a bit - to put the categories grouped together below here to one part of the forum.

And to have a prog lounge and and off-topic section (General Discussions) shown in a manner inspired by Prog Ears, by for instance letting the 20 most resent posts be show below the header on the "frontpage" of the forum. But that's just me I guess.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 18:26
Originally posted by ExittheLemming ExittheLemming wrote:

^ Well dip me in vinegar , cover me in breadcrumbs and call me a silly halibut. I've been here for 2 years and didn't know that function existed.Embarrassed


That's because it's a fairly new facility. I only found it a few months back, too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 07 2010 at 18:33
^ it's always been available manually by entering "site:www.progarchives.com/forum" in any Google search box with your keywords.
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