Search issues megathread

clicking view all posts since last visit, i get the main search page. i loved that function, do u know wats wrong with it ?

edit: works now :) dont worry
 
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It's sorted now.

The ability to search for 3 letter words is the best thing to happen to bluelight since I joined.
 
I don't think the wildcard is even working... or is that just me?
 
All sorted now and being able to search for 3 letter words is a good move.

Bliz0r - Wild card seems to be working at this end. The wildcard is the asterix, isn't it?
 
Search broken?

Whenever I type anything in, it acts as if I used the 'OR' operator, even if I specifically put 'AND' in there...
 
i just tried some searches and as far as i can tell:

1. wildcard searching is not working at all

2. "AND" is always treated as "OR"

between these two, for me, we may as well have no search feature.

alasdair
 
thanks chris - you are a rock
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alasdair
 
Alrighty, not to let search issues die

In NAE and MW we have instituted a thread title policy to aid in sorting the forum and finding what you're after. All threads start with the State, City and then event DATE then ending with the event NAME and any other relevant info like headliners. For example, "CO, Denver - 11.19.05 Saturday - Underground Sounds feat Bigfoot". Sorting the forum by Thread title gives you an easy way to find all events in your state/city and it lists them in chronological order.

The problem is if you use the search function and search for a date (keyword "11.19.05"), it always returns "No Results". If you use wildcards (keyword "11*19*05") you get useless results.

IS the search function capable of processing non-alphanumeric characters that are not wildcards (like hyphens, periods, question marks, etc)? Can it process some but not others (should we switch to colons, hyphens, or something besides a period)? Or, do we need to re-evaluate our DATE formats? I could see us switch to "Nov 19" but then a title sort would get out of whack (Dec occuring before Nov, and all).

Input from Sr. Admins and Engineers on the search capabilities would be helpful for general knowledge. Alternative suggestions to fix our problem (other dating schemes) would also be appreciated from anyone. Thanks.
 
Addendum - I have forgotten the single character wildcard (not the asterisk '*' for multiple characters, but a single character....perhaps the '?' would work, but I tried that and it isn't solving the issue to search for "11?16?05" either). :X
 
I was wondering what was up with the 'AND' operator...

....I get a lot of 'UTFSE', but whenever I use the AND operator, it acts like I used OR.

I was wondering if I was doing it wrong or if it's been broken awhile.

I understand if it's a lot of work/problem with the code you guys use, just wondering.

BTW, props on a great site, this has just been a pet peeve of mine for awhile.
 
alasdairm said:
tfse is supposed to have a working 'and'. related reading: http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showpost.php?p=3576167&postcount=30

also: Search issues megathread

alasdair
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I know, and it annoys me to get 3,000,000x irrelevent results, and make a thread about something I KNOW has been covered thousands of times... and occasionally get told to UTFSE (but not often, since I guess the mods are aware of the issue, or maybe it's because I have a high post count, which means jack shit BTW).
 
search is seriously broken.

there's a thread about 'six feet under' on the front page of f&t. if i search in titles only for "under" or "under*" it fails to find it. why?

alasdair
 
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