Filter for OTW ?

kallamej · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:59 pm Post subject:

Signatures are not indexed and hence not searchable. For instance, search for "faq answers" with or without me as author.
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don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 811

Hmmm, that's strange. Because it was happening to me. Too bad I cannot remember what I was searching for. I'll let you know if it happens again...

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irusun · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 27

I just want to say thank you for the changes. The search function was becoming increasingly useless over the last year. In the past, I've found the answer to 99% of my gentoo questions/problems by searching the forums. Recently however, it had become a major drag to find what I was looking for - I can just imagine the number of users who simply gave up and started a duplicate thread. Keep up the good work!

don quixada · l33t Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 811

I'm on a roll here, sorry for being so pesky...

In my searches sometimes I get results with gargantuan threads such as this one.

It would be great if the search somehow indiciated which page the keyword I used in on.

Just a thought, I won't hate you guys if you don't implement it. Thanks again for improving our lives already.

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Earthwings · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

penguinlnx · Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 8:56 pm Post subject:

wow I second that. What is the point of searching sigs.

tomc4t · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 16

Fantastic, the search is having problem..i think
Try to search "gentoo" => no answer.. how is this possible?!?

try to search something else... no more then 200 result...
words tryed:

video
cpu
amd
xorg
enlightenment
router

is the index going to refresh?

ian! · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 6:34 pm Post subject:

Did you have a look at this thread?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-223530.html
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tomc4t · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 16

Ok you are rigth, i was supposing something like that.

BUT
all other words have too few answers.
No more then 3 - 4 pages... the oldest one is near May 2005...
what's wrong?

kallamej · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

is there a policy change OTW does not show up in search for new posts id?
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

hmmm i never noticed it till today

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srunni · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 365

You can see your unofficial (i.e., counting OTW) post count at https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_author=padoor

To get your OTW post count, just subtract your official post count from the unofficial post count. Also note that the unofficial post count is incapable of advancing beyond 6666, though I have no idea why.
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poly_poly-man · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 3:35 am Post subject:

srunni · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 365

Oh, well that makes sense. The point of the new/unanswered posts feature is to allow people to quickly find unsolved threads. Besides, I get the feeling that the ops sort of try to hide OTW, so that people aren't scared away from fgo as a whole ;/
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

i thought so too
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jdmulloy · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:48 am Post subject:

The forum software also has a nasty habit of marking threads as read when they aren't. It seems like it may be that it only marks it unread for some amount of time and then decided to mark it as read. Then sometimes it won't mark it read when I have opened it. Also many times the icon that is supposed to take you to the first unread post in a thread will bring me to a much older post, and it should know since the post has a white page icon instead of an orange page.

Then there's the "View you posts" feature can't seem to find older threads. It finds 111 threads while using the search function and searching my username gives me 1031 threads.
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think4urs11 · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:03 am Post subject:

poly_poly-man · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:15 pm Post subject:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20589

I think there's a thread in here explaining it. OTW was eliminated from search by default, so that probably impacted this as well.

Moved from Off the Wall to Gentoo Forums Feedback.
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nixnut · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:16 pm Post subject:

Merged above 11 posts here.
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