Search for User Profile

[adaMada]

When I want to view someone's user profile; I go under a bookmark in my browser, and manually edit the http address so that it has the correct user name in it. This allows me to check profiles without finding one of their posts, and clicking the profile botton. This is a rather long and cumbersome process, so I want to know if a box could be created that would allow you to enter a user name into the box, and it would display the profile for this person. All this box would do is stick whatever text you enter into at the end of : http://apolyton.net/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbm...tbio&UserName=

For instence:
If you wanted to find my profile, you would enter "adaMada" into the box, and this would send you to the following address: http://apolyton.net/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbm...rName=adaMada.

Just an idea. It can't be to hard…

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adaMada
adamada@sprimail.com
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by adaMada (edited April 11, 2000).]</font>

[Narck]

How hard is it to just click profile and manually make changes?

[adaMada]

Narck:
You missed the point!!

I don't want to make changes. I want to be able to view other people's profiles, without going to the trouble of finding one of their posts, and clicking on the view profile botton. The view profile botton is great; but sometimes I just want to view someone's profile without going to the trouble of finding one of their posts.

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adaMada
adamada@springmail.com
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by adaMada (edited April 12, 2000).]</font>

[ghen]

I swear, ada.. so you want to add another couple pages of bloat to apolyton, just so you don't have to edit the address field??

Just make a bookmark that points towards http://apolyton.net/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbm...tbio&UserName=
then just add the name of who you want! Jeez, its like I just answered this question a week ago.. Oh wait, I did

[adaMada]

If you actually took the time to read my post (novel new idea) then you'll find that I actually do have a bookmark to that address. I'm just looking for an easier way, and it can't be that hard to set this up…



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adaMada
adamada@springmail.com

[Narck]

There is an easy solution to this: ubb comes equipped with an option to show the full member list of the forums, from there you can find names you want and click their profiles.

however, IIRC, Mark and Dan don't want to show this list for some reason. So, if that's the case, they won't like this option either And in that case you're just going to have to spend those 2 seconds extra to type it in yourself!

[adaMada]

They don't like the list because it slows down the surver…

I can't see why they won't like this, however, because people (like me) already use this anyway. They would just be making it easier…

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adaMada
adamada@springmail.com

[Narck]

ok, let's say they wont dislike it, still the fact remains that they probably have better things to do around the site than this kind of stuff.

[sammyboy7]

face it mada, just give up. yu arnt gon to geet thees, so jast shat oop

[Ari Rahikkala]

Maybe searching the user profile slows down the server... But has anybody used the functions "Find all posts by this user" and "Today's active topics"? They search through more than ten thousand posts. User is a different thing than post, that's for sure, so maybe searching users takes more server time than searching posts. I don't know.

[adaMada]

Why? When you directly edit the address, it only takes a few seconds for the profile to show up. Besides, this would only search 5,500 (roughly) names, each with only one or two words. Compare this to searching every word in the OT!! b (what LightEning said )

Could one of the moderaters/admins. please post a reply?

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adaMada
adamada@springmail.com
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by adaMada (edited April 14, 2000).]</font>

[MarkG]

there is a user search engine which is only availiable for admin use. from that experience, I know very well that it is not something to be given to public use

[adaMada]

MarkG:

Please clarify.

[MarkG]

I'm talking about response times when a borader search is done. and while you and I might search for "adamada" or "ada" or "mark", there are loots of other who will just put "a" and kill the system in the process

[adaMada]

Oh, ok.

I was thinking of something a bit different from a search engine; whatever was put in the box would be stuck onto the end of the url: http://apolyton.net/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbm...tbio&UserName=

Therefor, you would have no choice but to enter the full username. It would be nice if what you entered was not case-sensative, as it is now, but that is not neccessary.