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Post by in·clover on Aug 30, 2010 22:06:11 GMT -5
I'd look but I've never had any success with the forum's search engine. Search function actually worked for once. Wish I tried that first. Ah, I'm not alone! I have never been able to get that thing to come up with anything at all. Even setting the amount of results, the date, everything. Not sure what can be done about that, if this is a proboards thing that cannot be fixed, or what. Has anyone gotten results with it? Is there some special way of getting it to work? It's not exactly straightforward.
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Post by Pitch on Aug 30, 2010 22:21:28 GMT -5
I use it all the time. When it doesn't work I just try again and usually it comes up just fine. Seems about as straightforward as it gets.
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EDIT: there was a problem very briefly where the new emoticons conflicted with the search engine's underlying javascript somehow, but that problem has gone
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Post by in·clover on Aug 30, 2010 22:40:53 GMT -5
I remember fiddling endlessly with it a year or so ago. Should have guessed Chiz or someone went in and made some changes during that whole emotikobun thing, because it never worked before now. Anywho, I should have checked again before posting. My bad.
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Post by Pitch on Aug 30, 2010 23:00:09 GMT -5
Eh? Well the problems because of the emotions were very recent. I've used the Forum Search for years. (see that "New Topics" button? I've been doing that search manually for ages) Sometimes I have to try more than twice, but it usually works for me on the second try. When it doesn't work on the first.
I wish the search function was better, though. Being only capable of searching 1000 posts from 1000 days was OK maybe like four years ago, but now it's just a headache. >.< Friggin' Proboards.
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Post by Chiz on Aug 31, 2010 5:31:05 GMT -5
Yeah, it was an EKP bug. It wasn't just the search function that it affected, but also most of the admin panel, poll voting, and a couple other things. It was fixed by being more strict in which pages executed what, if any, code. The Proboards search function has always been a little lacking. Unfortunately, Google Search can only go so far, and doesn't do user-specific searches. Such is life, right?
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Post by Raijin on Aug 31, 2010 22:41:54 GMT -5
Last time I tried the search function here before yesterday was a couple months ago, I think before the EKP fixes, and it was wholly incapable of finding a specific word anywhere in the forum even though I knew it was out there somewhere. I think I was only able to get the search to return any results when I was looking for words in topic titles rather than in the post proper, but that's not much help if I don't remember the name of the thread I'm looking for of course.
Last night I did a search on "Volnutt", which is relatively vague, but I still found the post I had in mind fairly quickly. I guess it would still be a problem if I was looking for something more than 3 years old though.
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Post by Tau on Sept 1, 2010 3:48:09 GMT -5
It's always been hit-and-miss for me. Do a search for "Gameshark" and you'll get zero results, even though Trege's Gameshark thread is on the first page of the MML1 board. :15:
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Post by Chiz on Sept 1, 2010 11:47:36 GMT -5
Search Term, "Gameshark", by anyone, across the entire board, most recent 100 hits in the last year, thread/condensed listing. Results. Sure, the search can be flaky at times, but it's by no means non-functional. EDIT: (possibly irrelevant) Remember, if you do a user-specific search, you need to use their username, not their display name. Someone searching for my posts would have to use "ericchiz", not " Eric Chiz". Everyone's forum profile lists their username in parentheses at the top, if they use a display name.
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