Forum Search Seems Very Limited
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Forum Name: Help us improve the site
Forum Description: Help us improve the forums, and the site as a whole
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Topic: Forum Search Seems Very Limited
Posted By: ProgBob
Subject: Forum Search Seems Very Limited
Date Posted: January 28 2010 at 18:15
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Maybe I am doing something wrong but it seems that there are very few options for forum searches. For example, it doesn't seem to be possible to find posts by an author and the keyword search only seems to work for titles rather than content of posts.
------------- Bob |
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 03:23
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The volume of posts to the forum meant that mailto:M@x - M@x (the webmaster) had to restrict some of the more demanding search types. An alternative though is to use the internal Google search available from the home page, as that also takes in the forum area.
(Good to see another "Bob" around!)
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 07:26
I stumbled upon that recently and I must say that it works a lot better than the forum search engine. |
Easy Livin wrote:Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 08:17
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Yeah, that's how I found the site in the first place. And if you Google my name, I'm at the top of the list thanks to doing album reviews here. http://www.google.com/search?q=Brian+S.+Lindsey&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a - http://www.google.com/search?q=Brian+S.+Lindsey&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a  By the way, those other Brian Lindsey's and Lindsay's are imposters!
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 11:43
| I usually use Google's site feature, for example: site:progarchives.com Miley Cyrus |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 12:06
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Yes... as much as I love the website and its people, I have to say, the in-forum search feature sucks, probably more than any other I've ever seen... Use the google one.. ------------- 
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Posted By: Marty McFly
Date Posted: January 29 2010 at 14:23
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Same opinion as The T. I don't get one thing. When you click on one's name and then "Find members posts", you're redirected to search page with "one's" name filled. On other forums with this system (or similar one), you're given results instead. One more click, you say it's nothing, but when it's 2 clicks, or 3 clicks, then it's difference. ------------- There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
Posted By: ProgBob
Date Posted: January 30 2010 at 18:54
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Thanks for the Google hint. Almost doesn't seem worth having the forum search facility. I guess it is difficult to disable it?
------------- Bob |