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Mr ChriZ

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Interact search becoming hard to use
« on: March 25, 2012, 07:38:13 am »
It seems now a days when ever I try and use interact search all I get is a list of builds that happen to contain my search terms, but often not the help I'm looking for.
Try for example searching for
"image playlist sort"

For this reason I wonder if it would be better to move build threads into a separate child board which defaults to non searchable?
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Jaguu

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Re: Interact search becoming hard to use
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2012, 10:57:40 am »
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Re: Interact search becoming hard to use
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2012, 11:43:17 am »
Agreed!
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Re: Interact search becoming hard to use
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2012, 01:07:40 pm »
It probably won't change.  The search mechanism built into the forum software stinks, and is likely to continue to stink.  The forum's software (SMF, from YaBB) has fallen far behind the BB Forum curve.

Use google instead.  See the last three replies here:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=65895.0

The only problem is that it won't search the beta area.
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Re: Interact search becoming hard to use
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2012, 04:15:58 pm »
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The forum's software (SMF, from YaBB) has fallen far behind the BB Forum curve.

To be fair, SMF 2.0 Final was released last June. I don't know where it is on the curve, but it seems considerably better than 1.1.
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Mr ChriZ

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Re: Interact search becoming hard to use
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2012, 04:24:42 pm »
I've never had a problem with the search.  It works fine for me.  Unfortunately the build posts just contain just about every search term you could ever search for.
While you can mess around with the search subtract feature I just feel it would be better if they were in a separate board!
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Re: Interact search becoming hard to use
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2012, 08:50:51 pm »
Perhaps moving the build notes to the wiki, and just placing a link in the sticky.
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