forum search

[Vaibhav]

Using Chrome on XP.

I just searched for keyword "teylyn". Results attached. Why would I see a list of top level forums and then a bunch of visitor messages between people who are not me and don't mention me in the VM?

That is because in default search results all the content types are selected, for more accurate results try and use this kind of setting : http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...0101at323.png/

I notice that the advanced search has two tabs and seems to default to "Search Multiple Content Types". That tab has different search fields from the tab "Search Single Content Type". The latter looks like the old search interface, and there is an option to "Find latest post by user", or alternatively, "Find threads started by user". The "latest post" is still not correct, but I guess my latest post has not yet been indexed for the search.

To find the latest threads started by the user you can use the search settings here : http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...0101at323.png/ and to see the posts by the user you can write the user name in the keyword instead of the user name ..

In any case, I find it much faster to just go to my user CP, which for reasons incomprehensible is still hiding behind "Settings", and then click to show all subscribed threads.

Yup i agree and this suggestion is up in the mods section for approval by the mods and once done we will put it in the navigation bar (go vote asap )

One thing that search no longer does is to find posts with 0 replies. On the search interface that is now on the tab "Search Single Content Type" , one used to be able to enter "Find Threads with" > At most > 0 replies. I can still enter this search criterion, but the search result contains threads with more than 0 replies.

Needs work.

It does find posts with 0 replies, if you find threads with atmost 0 replies its showing posts with 0 replies "at the time of last indexing" the board. Now what is happening is that we are indexing the board once a day and hence there are posts in between the time the board was indexed and when some one searches the board. The best solution to this should be indexing the board every few hours or every hour. I will see to the amount of load each indexing puts on the server and adjust the frequency accordingly ...