Gary has ripped out our old search engine and replaced it with a faster and much more capable one. We'll be fine-tuning it and adding more features as time goes by, but you can give it a spin now!
I'm so happy I'm delirious. Finally we have a good search feature again. The trick of using Google had a lot of problems while this search engine seems, at first blush, to be quite good. I was able to nearly instantly locate a post I wrote in March of 2007 about using Dragons optimally, something I'd not been able to locate since mid 2008.
Wow...I searched for "hogarth grapple hezrou" and it referred me to exactly the archived post I was looking for, and nothing else!
Kudos!
Andrew Phillips(Pathfinder Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Battles Case Subscriber)
Awesome! I just used the new Search for the first time(almost a month after the update), typed in what I thought would be a mostly useless string and got exactly what I was looking for.
Idea the Ignore List/Poster Filtering prompted:
Have a Search: Within this Thread option [within the current page's thread], which can search for poster(s), topics, etc. Might have to grey it out for non-forum pages like the front page, etc...
Have a Search: Within this Thread option [within the current page's thread], which can search for poster(s), topics, etc. Might have to grey it out for non-forum pages like the front page, etc...
This is actually already on the todo list... I was waiting for someone to request it before assigning it a priority. I know some forums have long threads on a specific topic where you might want to search for a particular subject you know has been covered somewhere in there (e.g., "latest firmware update"), but I wasn't sure it'd be as useful for our messageboards. (Does anybody really need to search the FAWTL threads? :-)
Eric Swanson(Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, Adventure Path, Campaign Setting Subscriber)
Gary Teter wrote:
(Does anybody really need to search the FAWTL threads? :-)
I have no idea what FAWTL is supposed to mean, but I *know* Search: Within Thread would be very useful for the loooong threads that tend to develop here, to be able to go find one of my OWN posts that directly addresses a recent poster's question, just as one example... Or to look for the James/ Jason post that I *know* I saw somewhere... etc...
This brings up that distinguishing between filtering for a poster within thread and filtering for content within thread could be useful, otherwise a person's name would also bring up messages QUOTING that person's name...
Anyhow, thanks for the good job getting this going!
I think it stands for "Forums Are Way Too Long", although what that means and where it came from, I have no idea. Maybe I can find out using the Search feature.
Chef's Slaad(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber)
Obvious Troll Is Obvious wrote:
Quandary wrote:
I have no idea what FAWTL is supposed to mean...
I think it stands for "Forums Are Way Too Long", although what that means and where it came from, I have no idea. Maybe I can find out using the Search feature.
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