09-21-2008, 03:48 PM
brianlmoon wrote:
[quote=JJ]
Search is still not as useful as it used to be.
In the old forum, I could type "jj" in the search function and it would return results. At the bottom of the page, I could refine or use the advanced search, but results were returned from a simple search.
The new forum returns no results for "jj", so I then have to use the advanced search function.
JJ
This means they are using the new, more advanced search functions. That is good as they are much faster. Unfortunately it means they don't have their MySQL server configured to index words less than 4 characters. So, you will not be able to search for any terms 3 characters or less. This is a configuration issue on the server and can be fixed however. All my servers are set to 2 characters or more for indexing.
Thanks for that info, that would explain why searching for "ggd" doesn't return anything either, but searching for longer author names using the simple search does work.
I do hope that the new forum can change the indexing to 2 characters to get back the functionality that we used to have.