Fix the search feature

[tanis2000]

Hey there,

it looks like the search is limited to posts like.. I don't know .. 30 days ago in time? Even if you set it to search for "Any Date" it still can't find posts older than a certain date. If you want an example, try searching for "babbot". I was looking for my own release post and I couldn't find it.. I went back to the old manual way of going back in time in the threads list and I managed to find it and it's still there.. so it's either not in the index or there's some kind of filter on the date/time. I leave it up to you to further investigate as I can't do much anyway

Thanks!

[zutto]

i vote that it should be fixed too..
it might be just me failing but i cant just find all threads i used to find with it.. >_>

makes me always use google to find mmowned topics

[stoneharry]

I have to agree, especially if you want to check for a repost or a guide you heard about a while ago. I was trying to find anything to do with a playercreateinfo creater to save me time as I remember it used to be all over the place, but failed to find it and resulted going through 32 pages of emulater questions manually.

[BonutDot]

This was already suggested over a month ago, gosh l2search.

O wait......

[Pale]

This was already suggested over a month ago, gosh l2search.

O wait......

ROFL!

And yes, I agree as well.

[Keithh]

This was already suggested over a month ago, gosh l2search.

O wait......

Win.

lmao, but yes, I agree

[Phygar]

Don't even use the site search. The admins refuse to change the wait timer, it only displays some threads (or so I hear), It takes out any words less than 4 letters, and it doesn't search for synonyms.

Just add:

site:mmowned.com

into a google search

[Apoc]

I'm looking into the issue. I'll let you know if/what I can fix.

[Pale]

Don't even use the site search. The admins refuse to change the wait timer, it only displays some threads (or so I hear), It takes out any words less than 4 letters, and it doesn't search for synonyms.

Just add:

site:mmowned.com

into a google search

I do that when i need to search frequently, but it would be nice to have the feature above integrated into the actual site. (Not the Timer! That's understandable.)

[Apoc]

Searching is fixed now. Also; I increased the returned results to a max of 100 (up from 50)

Edit; to those of you who complained about the minimum character limit in searching. That's forced by MySQL. We can change it, however, it would lead to quite irrelevant search results. (And people abusing the search system [hence the long flood timer on searching]) If the need arises, we can look into it more, but for now, a minimum of 3 characters is plenty.

[Dragonshadow]

Searching is fixed now. Also; I increased the returned results to a max of 100 (up from 50)

Edit; to those of you who complained about the minimum character limit in searching. That's forced by MySQL. We can change it, however, it would lead to quite irrelevant search results. (And people abusing the search system [hence the long flood timer on searching]) If the need arises, we can look into it more, but for now, a minimum of 3 characters is plenty.

How about a Google custom search on the search page.

[Apoc]

How about a Google custom search on the search page.

I'll look into it. If you can find me something that already does it; it'll probably speed things up.

[Dragonshadow]

I'll look into it. If you can find me something that already does it; it'll probably speed things up.

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