Argonath RPG - A World of its own
Argonath RPG Community => Forum and site ideas and information => Topic started by: Julio. on May 19, 2016, 02:44:11 pm
-
Hi all,
Now, I don't know about you guys, but I personally find the search system currently implemented on the forum very poor. I rarely actually find the topic I'm looking for, and tend to give up and scour the forum manually.
For example, searching "TinyChat" in the search gives me pages and pages of irrelevant content. The search doesn't even seem to consider that what I want would probably be in the subject line of the topic.
Any thoughts?
-
Webmasters have tried to bring it back but it's bugged and really complicated.
@Brian.
-
It only gives results based on what Guests can see in the forum, which is pretty much nothing.
-
Webmasters have tried to bring it back but it's bugged and really complicated.
@Brian.
It isn't complicated, it just requires in-depth knowledge of PHP.
-
It isn't complicated, it just requires in-depth knowledge of PHP.
Perhaps a volunteer from the community with such a skill set could write it up if none of the scripting team have dabbled in PHP before as it's just a single page. It could be easily inspected and reviewed before adding to the production version of the site.
-
Perhaps a volunteer from the community with such a skill set could write it up if none of the scripting team have dabbled in PHP before as it's just a single page. It could be easily inspected and reviewed before adding to the production version of the site.
Unfortunately, scripting team members != webmasters, to a certain extent. I'm sure this is up for discussion and i'll make sure to forward this topic to the right people.
-
No rush, if you've got to try and pester Teddy for this then it can wait (I know he's been stressed a lot recently...).
Just as long as you guys are aware it's not working particularly well at the moment! ;)
-
If things are this broken within the forum, maybe it is time to start fresh and transfer data over which we want to keep...
-
If things are this broken within the forum, maybe it is time to start fresh and transfer data over which we want to keep...
This
-
Yes and a new theme would be better too!
-
Yes and a new theme would be better too!
That may need a separate topic :P
-
Then be prepared for constant moaning every day for the next 2 years ;)
-
There's a couple of different themes in your options on the left side margin.
-
It isn't complicated, it just requires in-depth knowledge of PHP.
@Marcel
You would be right if this was well maintained SMF php code. However, this is Argonath forums which has been plagued with years and years of inexperienced people having access to do things they had no experience or even half a clue what it did. I have more than the in-depth knowledge of PHP you speak of, and I have tried multiple times to rectify what was changed with little success. The forums have been abused too much.
-
So... what's fundamentally the problem? (excluding the fact the forum has been abused previously).
-
So... what's fundamentally the problem? (excluding the fact the forum has been abused previously).
That if we use the regular search it'll crash the forums every 20 odd seconds, as experienced previously.
We've tried cleaning up the forum, as well as adjusting the search and several other things but the SMF search is just not able to handle the large size and abuse this forum has experienced.
Hence why we've added google search, which only works for public searches (so any post a 'guest' can see.)
-
That if we use the regular search it'll crash the forums every 20 odd seconds, as experienced previously.
We've tried cleaning up the forum, as well as adjusting the search and several other things but the SMF search is just not able to handle the large size and abuse this forum has experienced.
Hence why we've added google search, which only works for public searches (so any post a 'guest' can see.)
Doesn't limiting the resulting set of rows from the query to something stupidly small like 20 help at all? Because as far as I can see that would still be more useful than the Google Custom Search. I find things quicker manually searching than using the Google search.
-
Doesn't limiting the resulting set of rows from the query to something stupidly small like 20 help at all? Because as far as I can see that would still be more useful than the Google Custom Search. I find things quicker manually searching than using the Google search.
I remember when testing it with Janek we've put it to five and it still crashed the forums.
-
Large forums shouldn't be causing this crash. Search still works on forums much larger than this one. It just takes awhile to produce results. Something is definitely broken internally.