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nietzsche
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5470 Posts
8/03
Posted - Jan 28 2004 : 7:40AM
I try to look up threads by keyword and sometimes by user but they don't come up. I seem to remember it working a couple of weeks ago, but perhaps I am imagining.

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DenverDon
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7/02
Posted - Jan 28 2004 : 11:39AM
Not just you nietzsche.

There are a couple of other functions not working properly. I've emailed Drew.

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Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - Jan 28 2004 : 4:39PM
just email me your search criteria (or post it here) so I can try to reproduce it on this end. I have been getting error reports of the search function timing out. This might be related to the splitting of the database a couple of weeks ago.

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Simple Simon
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2/15
Posted - May 21 2020 : 2:42AM
Drew Black
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8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - May 21 2020 : 6:23AM
When you search topic titles it uses the date of the first post in the thread. That topic was started in December of 2007 which is a bit further out than 180 days.


Just curious how it should work? I can make it do anything. Should it return all posts in the past 180 days in any topic that has a matching search term in the topic's subject?

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Flash All-Star Supporter
Golden Age Classic

11018 Posts
5/01
Posted - May 21 2020 : 11:28AM
I think it should return threads that have matching title keywords with a post in the thread from within the search period.
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Simple Simon
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12302 Posts
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Posted - May 22 2020 : 4:00AM
Thanks.

would've thought that date referred to the last post in the thread. That's what I think it should do.

If not, what about the default being 'from day one' and the search can be narrowed down from there.

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Drew Black
broken crankshaft

8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - May 22 2020 : 7:56AM
With any/all posts from the time period if the search term matches the subject?
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Flash All-Star Supporter
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5/01
Posted - May 22 2020 : 11:43AM
Would it be hard to have it return just the thread and have a second search thread option to bring up matching posts within the thread you are in?
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Drew Black
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8009 Posts
9/99
Posted - May 24 2020 : 1:06PM
Yep. I can do that.
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AngryPirate
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3210 Posts
8/17
Posted - May 24 2020 : 2:11PM
Out of interest, how much more resource does it take to expand a 30 day search window to every post since 1999?

With a spate of duplicate topics that had easily searchable subjects, I wonder how many people only use the 30 day default and don't think to search back further.

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Drew Black
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Posted - May 25 2020 : 8:23AM
It's not much different in terms of resources to search the entire history of the forum vs. just 30 days. It does the full-text search first on the entire database and then applies the date filter as a supplemental step. It seems counter-intuitive, but it's faster to query the entire full-text index to get a list of matching topics than to SQL join the results of the full-text search with a date range defined in a WHERE clause.
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