Why is it so sh!t

I done a thread the other day and went to search for it, typed in the EXACT thread title, author and it still said "no topics matched your criteria"

and it's not the first time, it never finds what your looking for even when you KNOW what the title is or the author


/rant off

 

i guarantee you you mistyped it

 

"Car insurance shock!"

All I didnt put in was the "!"

BUT

On other search functions ive used on various other forums, it usually matches it with just "shock" and "vroooom ptssssh" as the author and set to "topic title"


P.s. jus tried their again and still no joy?

"Car insurance shock!"
topic
general discussion
vroooom ptssssh as author

heres the topic on page 5
https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=215330

 

i know its shit, why cant it just be simple, thats why if i want anything i make a new thread asking where it is

 

I could be wrong, but think Pet' disabled the inbuilt search facility as it was slowing the board down, after a new release of the BB software used to run the board (which Petrucci spends a considerable amount of time customising/tweaking for PF use)

 

That would explain why then Bill


No disrespect to Pet or the webteam, they do a great job as it is

 

I don't think it searches on titles, only on thread content.

Picked up "banned years ago" from a b19bal post on your thread, and the search found it, if you specify "Search for all items"

I find the search most useful to be honest, the bulk of the words we are looking for are in the posts, not in the titles

 

i also agree it seems to miss loads of things, strange really

 

frog, Ive tried everthing believe me and 80% of the time it miss's it!

 

I just tried "Cosworth" searching in "GD" forum & came back with nothing.
I know the search was disabled before, but it was back up & running after Pet & Stu corrected something.

(Was looking for the S1 Cosworth thread from a week or two back)

 

i disabled lots of single words like "cosworth", "turbo", and all those things, because it's USELESS to search for them and they cause huge loads on the db. Don't tell me you find what you want when typing "cosworth" in a search, cause it's untrue. This word is written at least once a minute on here, and you'll surely not find your thread with such a general word on here... Now, if you want to do a search on "cosworth", then type "sierra cosworth" or any other word with it to precise your search about what you're really looking for. Lots of users were searching for words like "cars", "turbo", "lol", "shit", "ford" and so on (and even more stupid words like "the", "me, "you"...), and this is totally useless and causing huge trouble for the db as you can imagine... so, now, do a search with precise words and you'll see it works.

 

I did indeed search for "cosworth" but chose GD only forum due to that. I did want to give myself a chance of finding it today..lol. Also tried "cosworth series" but same result. Problem is that it's those types of words which people are going ot use to do a search. As you pointed out, not good searching for "The, Me,etc" but as I was looking for a specific thread on the "Series 1 with Cosworth engine" thread those words are the ones I would use....however if you know of alternative words I could use to find it

I think the page numbering system doesn't really help. Is there a way to change that as initially you get 1,2,3 and the last 3 pages. When you get to page 3, you get a 4 option. Is there a way to select page 30 for example without going through them all. Very frustrating.

 

i agree this page numbering system is stupid, and it often annoys me too. I'll work on changing this, good idea

 

Same principle for the memberlist.

 

yep, the whole page numbering thing is a mess imho

 

any better like this ?

 

 

Spot on mate. Much easier to navigate.
The board gets through so many pages in GD per day & this will defo make it easier to find something from a few days back.

 

cool then
i'll try to think about a better way of working for the search function, but trust me it's a tricky one

 

I found it by putting in "4x4" in the end.
Not trying to create you problems Pet, just trying to make the board better & easier for everyone to navigate & do stuff (Except you & Stu it seems )

 

I did have another query, if it can be done ??

When you have done a search and the threads are listed, is it possible to change the settings so you can preview the thread (like you can during normal forum scanning). Mainly because if you click the thread then click "back" it doesn't allow you to go back to the 'found' page and you have to re-input the search criteria again.

 

Thread subscription would be good.

 

Isn't that the same as topic notification ?

 

Hah mate you get a list of threads for future reference.

 

fan fucking tastic mate

 

yes the search is wank just use this method, using are best friend google.

if you want to search nitrous, then type

into google. easy works a treat

 

Petrucci, Thread page spot on!


I bet ive just kept you busy for the rest of the week, oops


top work tho, thanks

 

I wasas trying to seach for "Fuel pipe" and it came up with nothing

 

when you click "<- BACK", click the refresh button then or press F5.

This SHOULD repost the search info, to save you typing it in again.

 

Cheers Stu..i'll give it a go next time I use it