new FORUMS SEARCH SYSTEM

[Frozzy]

I think I remember you



Where've you been, Ras?

[Rasbelin]

Me? Here. I haven't been that frequently here, unlike previously. So my activity level has been shrinking quite a lot. I guess I have been occupied with other IRL issues more momentarily. Also not having actively played Civ games for a while, have caused me to drain out of new ideas or comments on the titles, so actual on-topic discussions haven't been my stuff for now.

But I'm not gone. Just a little bit more invisible. Like Kassiopeia and some other Finns.

[asleepathewheel]

Originally posted by MarkG
i should note that posting and editing will also be faster as the big searchindex tables are not used any longer

fantastic. And viewing a member's profile seems to be much faster now as well

[BigFree]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
I see there is still the 4-letter minimum though. Dammit.

I think it should allow for certain 3 letter combinations to be searchable. Is it possible to just limit what is not searchable? Words like "and, the, but, ect" while leaving "Civ, PTW, C3C, 1.15"

How about string searches? Like: "We love the king day"

[Skanky Burns]

No, if it enables 3-letter words it has to enable every 3-letter word, unless someone goes through and manually lists all the words the search feature has to ignore.

How about string searches?

Probably using the "search for exact phrase:" section of the page.

[BigFree]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
No, if it enables 3-letter words it has to enable every 3-letter word, unless someone goes through and manually lists all the words the search feature has to ignore.

That's what I thought. It would be easy enough to go in and kill the search for common 3-letter words but leave the possibility to search for acronyms.

[/quote]
Probably using the "search for exact phrase:" section of the page. [/QUOTE]

Yes...I was wondering if the 3-letter limitation also applied to the string function or not. I think it doesn't apply, but I'm just checking.

[Skanky Burns]

The restriction doesn't apply to the string function, apparently. I did a search for "14 factions" in the AC Gen forum which netted around 20 threads. I then did a search for "factions" in the same forum (still using the string search part) which netted 1300+ threads.

[vmxa1]

I sure like it a lot better.

[alva]

Good work

[SpencerH]

The 4 letter min is a bit of a pain. I was trying to find threads on CIV3 MP LAN .............

The my threads search seems much faster now

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns

I see there is still the 4-letter minimum though. Dammit.

I posted some ideas on how to get around this problem and how a 3-letter minimum might be implemented. These ideas seem to have gone unnoticed.

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...hreadid=107927


I do notice an improvement on the existing search function with the changes Mark has made. Thanks Mark.

[-Jrabbit]

Outstanding upgrade!!!

[Rasputin]

my threads search not working and searching for psots by me, resultsin only three posts ....

[DrSpike]

That's because the new search feature only returns posts with content in them.

[SpencerH]

The search by name and my threads search doesnt work, but if you click on the 'find more posts by' icon it does work ?