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Forum search sucks
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:20 pm
by eliphar17
The forum advanced search function that supposedly allows you to limit results by board actually does nothing. Please fix.
Plus the search itself is pretty bad. I tried searching for 'rendering' and the first 19 results did not have the word 'rendering'. Not very impressive.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:25 pm
by schugg
eliphar17 wrote:
The forum advanced search function that supposedly allows you to limit results by board actually does nothing. Please fix.
Plus the search itself is pretty bad. I tried searching for renderings and the first post was about the KCI shuttle. Not very impressive.
I agree! bahua!
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:36 pm
by bahua
I agree. The forum search sucks. There's nothing we can do about it.
Try prepending a google search with:
site:forum.kcrag.com:
like so...
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:30 am
by bahua
This time, I've actually created a real, sanctioned google search thingie, and stuck it on the page. I'm still working on it, but I think it'll do for now.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:32 am
by AllThingsKC
Looks good, bahua! Now, all I need is something to search...
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:45 pm
by dangerboy
What happened to the previous search built into SMF? I liked it
The new search returns links to the mobile view of the forum, which kinda sucks.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:23 pm
by bahua
Well I prefer it to a search that just plain doesn't work. That's the SMF search.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:25 pm
by dangerboy
bahua wrote:
Well I prefer it to a search that just plain doesn't work. That's the SMF search.
Was it a casualty of moving to the new host? It seemed to work well in the past...
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:36 pm
by bahua
dangerboy wrote:
Was it a casualty of moving to the new host? It seemed to work well in the past...
I've heard this suggestion before, and I wonder where it comes from. For me the search, since this site first converted to SMF from phpBB a couple years ago, has been unbelievably useless. I will keep working on this.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:39 pm
by nota
WHEW!!!!!!!!!
I've thought it was unbelievably useless forever, but I thought it was me so I never said anything.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:42 pm
by chrizow
there was a time where i was able to search and find specific posts i wanted. then i could not find anything. now there is a 7% likelihood i will find what i am looking for.
WEAK.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:57 pm
by bahua
As I said, I working on it. When I say that, that means I'm working on it. It doesn't mean I've cast the issue aside. It means I'm actually working on it. Right now.
Right now, you can find what you're looking for, but you'll need to strip the ";wap2" off the end of the url to get the page to appear normal.
I'm working on it.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:00 pm
by KCMax
bahua wrote:
As I said, I working on it. When I say that, that means I'm working on it. It doesn't mean I've cast the issue aside. It means I'm actually working on it. Right now.
Right now, you can find what you're looking for, but you'll need to strip the ";wap2" off the end of the url to get the page to appear normal.
I'm working on it.
I also want a pony.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:06 pm
by bahua
I've set up a
robots.txt file. I think this might work. Can anybody confirm this?
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:10 pm
by chrizow
bahua, the search function isn't working very well. could you look into that?
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:13 pm
by bahua
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 3:52 pm
by chrizow
bahua wrote:
forum's broke, dude. the equipment is busted.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:20 pm
by GRID
bahua wrote:
no the search sucks.
What is with the text only google results that don't have hot links? The easiest way to search this forum is to leave the forum and do a normal google search.
A forum with no search and no spell check. Everything's up to date in KC! Haha.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:16 pm
by bahua
The "text-only" google results are the wireless version of each page. As I said:
bahua wrote:
Right now, you can find what you're looking for, but you'll need to strip the ";wap2" off the end of the url to get the page to appear normal.
And then, in response to this problem, I said:
bahua wrote:
I've set up a
robots.txt file. I think this might work. Can anybody confirm this?
Please read the preceding posts before posting.
Re: Forum search sucks
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:43 pm
by GRID
OK, I only glanced at the posts, saw a bunch of typical bs and moved on