David Bailey
26th-April-2005, 09:28 PM
Whilst I have been amazed, astonished and impressed by the high level of usability of this forum (and tech support :flower: Franck), the search engine is a bit, technically speaking, iffy.
It's fast, which is of course good, but there are a couple of niggles:
1. Doesn't default to wildcard matching:
So, for example, before posting my wonderful "Competitions: why bother" thread, I searched on "competition". Didn't see anything, thought "Oh good, a new topic!", and posted.
However, had I searched on "competitions" instead, I'd have found out that this has been discussed to death, or at least to coma, and I'd have revived the old one or not posted. In other words, a search on "competition" doesn't automatically also search on "competitions", which I'd expect to happen on most searches.
2. Doesn't take you to the exact post
When looking for a term, I get directed to a thread, not a post - it makes it difficult to find "the one where DavidB said XXX", for example, in a 20-page thread. OK, the terms are highlighted, but you still need to scan through them all to find the post you want. Is there any way of going to a single post if that search term only occurs once in a thread?
Any chance of looking at these? It might help stop dumbos like me coming along and posting done-to-death topics... :blush:
It's fast, which is of course good, but there are a couple of niggles:
1. Doesn't default to wildcard matching:
So, for example, before posting my wonderful "Competitions: why bother" thread, I searched on "competition". Didn't see anything, thought "Oh good, a new topic!", and posted.
However, had I searched on "competitions" instead, I'd have found out that this has been discussed to death, or at least to coma, and I'd have revived the old one or not posted. In other words, a search on "competition" doesn't automatically also search on "competitions", which I'd expect to happen on most searches.
2. Doesn't take you to the exact post
When looking for a term, I get directed to a thread, not a post - it makes it difficult to find "the one where DavidB said XXX", for example, in a 20-page thread. OK, the terms are highlighted, but you still need to scan through them all to find the post you want. Is there any way of going to a single post if that search term only occurs once in a thread?
Any chance of looking at these? It might help stop dumbos like me coming along and posting done-to-death topics... :blush: