- Earthmanu
- Pilgrim
- From: France - near PARIS - Marly-le
- Registered: 2002-01-13
- Posts: 291
SEARCH Button
Why no search button on this wonderful site ?
- My former pseudo in the french minitel roleplaying community AKELA
was "GAG THE FOOL" , for about one thousand hours ...
- I wish to share experience about
1/writing rpg-scenarii in Tolkien's Beleriand ... 2/teaching roleplay and impro to disabled adolescents ... 3/simulations of acrobatic kites flying
- Matt
- Pilgrim
- From: Bay Area, CA
- Registered: 2001-05-23
- Posts: 912
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
Good question!
I responded on the FEEDBACK PLEASE thread. There's now a Search option in the links in the upper-left corner, by the "my profile" link.
Enjoy!
"The world up and went sane and I was left to stand alone."
-- Latigo Flint
- strangeshe
- Hierarch
- From: Texas
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 11262
Re: SEARCH Button
Matt wrote:Good question!
I responded on the FEEDBACK PLEASE thread. There's now a Search option in the links in the upper-left corner, by the "my profile" link.
Enjoy!
Excellent :)
Had no idea it'd be so easy. Thanks Matt!
- Em
- Mantis
- From: somewhere left of reality
- Registered: 2004-12-28
- Posts: 42304
Re: SEARCH Button
Me, too! I found myself. And, I can tell you, I'm really lost. *grins*
Thank you, Matt.
Now, can you help me with my homework?
"Ho, Ho," says the Keeper of the Beat. 1Q84, Haruki Murakami.
- Jendaiya
- Pilgrim
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 21821
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
Wow, Matt.
You farmers really know how to get things done.
Thanks. :)
Beauty will save the world.
~Prince Myshkin,
The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- mabinogi
- Pilgrim
- From: Canberra, Australia
- Registered: 2001-07-26
- Posts: 10087
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
heheh, five years of getting by without search, and all we had to do was ask ;)
..and then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.. My Musical Experimentations
- Earthmanu
- Pilgrim
- From: France - near PARIS - Marly-le
- Registered: 2002-01-13
- Posts: 291
Re: SEARCH Button
Great work Matt!
Thanks a lot from a lazy pilgrim.
Is 007's "Mister Q" your uncle ? ;-)
- My former pseudo in the french minitel roleplaying community AKELA
was "GAG THE FOOL" , for about one thousand hours ...
- I wish to share experience about
1/writing rpg-scenarii in Tolkien's Beleriand ... 2/teaching roleplay and impro to disabled adolescents ... 3/simulations of acrobatic kites flying
- ceywren
- Pilgrim
- From: hole in the bottom of the sea
- Registered: 2004-02-28
- Posts: 18790
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
hmmm....is it just me or does the search only result in 2004 topics?
"It's not that it's such a mystery
This new-found malaise.
It's just that this mystery
Has taken your place."
-Gordon Downie, Mystery-
- Firsfron of Ronchester
- Mantis
- From: Ronchester
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 9300
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
I don't know if that's what's wrong, but I have also wondered. I did some searches that should have pulled up more results than they did.
Still, I guess it's better than nothing...
- Sahi
- Mantis
- From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 37932
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
have you tried a specific search that would yield very few results of which some of them should be from this year? It might be that results are truncated to a manageable number (and then only returning the oldest ones). I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know if that is the case or not.
yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Aan`allein
- Hierarch
- From: The Netherlands - occasionally
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 5646
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
No, there really seems to be a lack of search results between July 2004 and October 2006. (Try for example searching for "dogly" in community. One very recent hit, the rest all in the first half of 2004.)
My first guess was that search requires threads to be indexed, and that indexing only ran while the search was turned on, so that all posts from when it was turned off can't be found - but that isn't it, since search was turned off way before 2004 (if I'm not very mistaken).
So, ehm, no explanation for this (could indexing be a _very slow_ background process that's still running, and only got up to July 2004 so far?) but (unless that last guess was correct) it'll definitely need looking at.
Mozilla developer comment of the however long it'll be this time: <Mossop> run for the hills!
<Boriss> i can't, i'm at a local maximum!Just Imagine...
- Matt
- Pilgrim
- From: Bay Area, CA
- Registered: 2001-05-23
- Posts: 912
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
Hi all,
I've rebuilt all the index files and stat files that I have access to through the board's control panel.
A quick search on posts by Tad in "The Real #5" turns up recent results, so I believe search should be working properly now. Let me know if you still notice problems.
Best!
Matt
"The world up and went sane and I was left to stand alone."
-- Latigo Flint
- Firsfron of Ronchester
- Mantis
- From: Ronchester
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 9300
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
Seems to work better. At least for me; I'm able to pull up stuff from 04-06, now. Pretty nifty. I wish this search thing had been available the past three years!
Also: what causes it to not index? I mean, what caused the loose connection?
- Sahi
- Mantis
- From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 37932
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
Hey Aan, is there any way to change the search functionality so you can find the exact post you are looking for? It's not really all that useful to know that the post you are looking for is in a certain Mint room...
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Aan`allein
- Hierarch
- From: The Netherlands - occasionally
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 5646
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
Yes: in the last selectbox ("Show results as"), select "Posts" rather than "Topics".
Mozilla developer comment of the however long it'll be this time: <Mossop> run for the hills!
<Boriss> i can't, i'm at a local maximum!Just Imagine...
- Sahi
- Mantis
- From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 37932
- Website
Re: SEARCH Button
*blushes* That'll teach me to read better! Thanks!
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- ylvs
- Mantis
- From: On the sunny side of life
- Registered: 2001-06-19
- Posts: 5174
Re: SEARCH Button
I'm glad you can not read any better, Sahi!
I would never have noticed this on my own.
Another shiny feature, Aan!
*wonders how many more are hidden here*
In an alternate universe, author Bobby Williams is known for his epic fantasy called, "Recollection, Sadness, and Spike". -- Cyan
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