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#37 2009-09-30 21:40:02
- els
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Re: New forum software
JanDW wrote:
Same here… I got 0 hits for article… hehe
I’m beginning to suspect that it just stops processing the search when the number of results is er… overwhelming ;) plugin, forum, article, tag… Who would seriously want to search for those words anyway ;)
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yeah… maybe someone installed the “stupid-search-blocker” module, it’s a feature! ;-)
Last edited by JanDW (2009-09-30 21:54:51)
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Re: New forum software
Els wrote:
The Tabula Rasa theme has been there for a while. Search for ‘forum style’ – in the advanced search ;) – and it’s the first topic in the list…
Never noticed it Els, missed it.
As for making it the default, even in the thread you link to, many people agreed that it should be the default for new users and guests. Keep in mind that current users retain their txpish choice, no matter what the default changes to.
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#40 2009-09-30 22:04:15
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Re: New forum software
hcgtv wrote:
As for making it the default, even in the thread you link to, many people agreed that it should be the default for new users and guests. Keep in mind that current users retain their txpish choice, no matter what the default changes to.
(Quoting Bert, but replying to everyone who said the same) I personally have no objections at all to making Tabula Rasa the default style! I can see that, as well in this thread as in the older one, the majority of posters is in favour of it. It’s just not up to me to decide, sorry.
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#41 2009-09-30 22:07:22
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Re: New forum software
JanDW wrote:
… the “stupid-search-blocker” module, it’s a feature! ;-)
LOL. From now on this will be our default reply to every ‘this forum search sucks’ post :)
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#42 2009-09-30 22:10:54
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Re: New forum software
JanDW wrote:
ok… I think I’ve said enough already. and it seems nobody else agrees. Blasted democracies…
Maybe I was unclear, we are saying exactly the same thing.
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Even searching for “textpattern” returns zero results. Are there logs that might help track the issue down?
Last edited by MattD (2009-09-30 22:37:32)
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Re: New forum software
Els wrote:
I personally have no objections at all to making Tabula Rasa the default style! I can see that, as well in this thread as in the older one, the majority of posters is in favour of it. It’s just not up to me to decide, sorry.
Els, I’m sorry if you felt pressured in anyway. My intention was to get a dialog going on improving the forum experience for the community.
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It’s just not up to me to decide, sorry
Maybe the gods are watching?
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I actually prefer txpish over tabula. I don’t care much what the default is, as long as I can still use txpish.
Searching within topics would be nice, especially for topics that have 100+ posts.
Els wrote:
I’m beginning to suspect that it just stops processing the search when the number of results is er… overwhelming ;) plugin, forum, article, tag… Who would seriously want to search for those words anyway ;)
Exactly. I suspect that the forum relies on MySQL to get search results. If a keyword appears in more than half of the records, MySQL will ignore that keyword. This makes sense. If the search results are over half the topics that were ever posted, you might as well start reading every topic without searching.
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ruud wrote:
I suspect that the forum relies on MySQL to get search results.
By default, PunBB does not use MySQL full text search, it builds two files – search_matches and search_words. I know Mary was looking to improve this, maybe she modded the software to use the MySQL search mechanism since rebuilding these indexes takes time, and also use up quite a lot of database space.
If sticking with PunBB is the plan, you would need to contact a former PunBB developer and ask them if they could look at the code and determine what the deal is with the search.
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Bert, what forum software would you suggest? My main gripe with punBB is the search. I don’t use Google or other unless the search fails, and I think its better to have a forum software with a good search facility instead of relying on Google.
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