Replace the "Google Custom Search"

[Julio.]

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?

[Conk]

Webmasters have tried to bring it back but it's bugged and really complicated.

@Brian.

[Stivi]

It only gives results based on what Guests can see in the forum, which is pretty much nothing.

[Marcel]

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.

[djole]

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.

[Marcel]

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.

[Julio.]

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! 

[SugarD]

If things are this broken within the forum, maybe it is time to start fresh and transfer data over which we want to keep...

[Fuzzy]

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

[Stivi]

Yes and a new theme would be better too!

[SugarD]

Yes and a new theme would be better too!

That may need a separate topic :P

[Conk]

Then be prepared for constant moaning every day for the next 2 years 

[Julio.]

There's a couple of different themes in your options on the left side margin.

[Teddy]

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.

[Julio.]

So... what's fundamentally the problem? (excluding the fact the forum has been abused previously).