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Geek Culture / Two Issues and Problems with this forum

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Jeremiah
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 05:32
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Could we please fix the search, so it does something other than search titles.

Instead of just locking pointless threads, how about we delete them so that when we are search later, we are not wading through that as well.
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mm0zct
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 06:05 Edited at: 10th Aug 2008 06:09
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that's what the google search is for isn't it....?

edit: and not all locked threads are pointless, some start off well and just end up badly and are worth finding in a search/

just be glad you can't get at the "team requests" board any more

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dark coder
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 08:00
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Quote: "and not all locked threads are pointless"


He said pointless threads, not threads that get derailed.

And I agree that the forum search is amazingly useless, it's so bad that it's truly amazing. An no, the google search isn't useful at all for searching a forum, very often I wish to search for a topic where I know the poster's name(or part of the topic title) and one or two words from the post and any decent forum would have a very extensive advanced search ability where I can easily find this post. However a title search where all the words must match and be in the right order is just useless, and not to mention as soon as it hits over 100 results it bombs out with an error, why doesn't it just display 100 results? Or at best 100 per page.

But there are many issues with the forum that will never be fixed so meh.

/me still waits for the upgrade to PHPBB.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 12:20
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Oh no, I'd have to slap Rich if he used PHPBB. You have any idea how many bots would be hitting the forums? Apollo is probably more secure.


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tha_rami
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 15:20
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More secure, yes, but the search sucks.


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Mahoney
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 15:48 Edited at: 10th Aug 2008 15:49
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Quote: "More secure, yes, but the search sucks."


So stupid it's genius.

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Little Bill
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 16:12
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I love that phrase

Especially if you emphasize the 'T' in stupid and the 'G' in genious.

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5867Dude
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 16:15
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Use SMF

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Deathead
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Umm, did everyone ever try the google forum search? It never links into other sites.


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dark coder
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Posted: 10th Aug 2008 16:37
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Quote: "Oh no, I'd have to slap Rich if he used PHPBB. You have any idea how many bots would be hitting the forums? Apollo is probably more secure."


By default maybe, slap on e-mail account validation and 99% of bots are out the window, and I'm sure there's a similar post approval status feature add-on.

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SunnyKatt
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Posted: 11th Aug 2008 03:20
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I'd hate to have post deleting. All that wonderful (and hilarious) history of these forums is preserved in locked threads.

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Jeremiah
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@deathhead. We realize this. We know it only searches this forum, but then again maybe you have never used any other forum software than this, so I will give you a break.

The search system for this site is a joke, and it makes it ridiculous to yell at newbies (which I see all of the time) to search.
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