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Gameplay => Wish list => Granted or negated Wishes => Topic started by: Xanthan on June 17, 2011, 10:20:06 am

Title: Better Forum Search
Post by: Xanthan on June 17, 2011, 10:20:06 am

Improve the forum search results.

Since we depend on these forums as a knowledge base and for much of our communications, we could all benefit from a better internal search engine, particularly improved result rankings and better matches.  The current SMF results seem to prioritise old threads rather than new ones, and also don't give a lot of priority to subjects in titles, or even exact phrase matches.

This thread seems to sum up the current state of affairs and recommends a mod to vastly improve searches:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=188513.0

Title: Re: Better Forum Search
Post by: Ebonwumon on June 17, 2011, 10:32:55 am

This times a thousand.

Minus twelve.

Title: Re: Better Forum Search
Post by: Xanthan on August 31, 2011, 10:19:44 pm

Yay!  Searching has improved dramatically with the new SMF version.  Those who've given up on it: try again now.