New features

[Tommy]

Is it just me, or is search being a bit wonky?

Heck, I even searched for "gt4" just to test, and it only came back with one result!

agreed.

maybe the search needs to be re-indexed

The search index was cleared recently, and I plan on switching it over to a google custom search which seems to be more accurate and consumes far few system resources. (Faster)

[Gary ST165]

good news. i love the search.

[toayoztan]

How do we perform a custom search?

Bryan

[Flying Bajan]

Why am I having so much trouble getting / staying logged in ??? Sooooooooooooooooo annoying !

[Gary ST165]

Tommy,

I see the new search box top right, and the google custom search box works OK-ish.

eg if i wanted to search for "sugar cube" i know i can copy and paste this text in to google :

sugar cube site:alltrac.net


like so: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sugar+cube+site%3Aalltrac.net





but i would ask you to re-index the search as i don't know if google cannot replace the phpBB search features, like search by author, 1st post , search title etc > unless you can teach us how to get better results please


thanks in advance


Gary

[toayoztan]

but i would ask you to re-index the search as i don't know if google cannot replace the phpBB search features, like search by author, 1st post , search title etc > unless you can teach us how to get better results please


thanks in advance


Gary

Ditto. This is what I loved about the previous search. I could easily scan the threads for a particular forum.

Bryan

[Tommy]

The search still exists. It is preferable for people to use the google search since that sucks up a lot less server resources.

The old search is still here: http://alltrac.net/phpBB2/search.php

The search database re-indexes on its own, so it will continually get better over time.

[Gary ST165]

by alltrac.net » Wed Dec 23, 2009 12:29 am

After an upgrade, it takes a few days for active topics to work. Basically, they aren't active yet.

I got a message saying the board was being updated earlier today... so any news or plans to make use of the view active topics function ? : search.php?search_id=active_topics

Just enabled this feature. Should be working soon. Try going back further than 7 days for now to see active topics.

try this....



I'm not teaching you to suck eggs, but have you checked that active topics is highlighted on every forum / subforum.

kind regards

[Gary ST165]

search.php?search_id=active_topics