FORUM SEARCH..... DO YOU USE IT???

[Nodz]

I do try with the search on pc and tapatalk on the phone and the search is pretty crap at present. All it seems to do is pull a few from recent years and then goes back to 2008 and 2009 but what you want doesn't show up even tho what you have searched for is contained within a post or thread title.

[Frenzy]

I use the search function. Sometimes it works... sometimes it don't. Life is like a box of chocolates... 

[Viking]

I use it when I'm looking for something, but it invariably fails to find something I know is there.

[rich83]

Yeah its turd.... always has been.

We are going to be implementing an Open Source Search engine called Sphynx. Apparently the smf search is crap with bit database... and ours is quite big at 689638 Posts in 49665 Topics by 9805 Members.

It might take us a while to get that sorted after we do the forum upgrade.... but its on the list.

Rich

[Frenzy]

cheers fella, the effort is appreciated   

[Deako]

I think this search function is the worst of any forum searches. But hey ho, it's what we got. Any improvement would be appreciated.

[rich83]

I think this search function is the worst of any forum searches. But hey ho, it's what we got. Any improvement would be appreciated.

It will be sorted out. 

It seems to love posts from about 2008/2009.... and ignores everything else. 

We have tried to rebuild an index on the testforum and it was taking forever (would have taken ~2 weeks) So Sphinx is the way we are going... should be much much better.

[Viking]

The old UK Mkivs search engine was worse than this one to be fair. It just made up answers which were not at all relevant, whereas at least here it just ignores stuff.

[Rossimac]

Haven't used the search function more than a few times and it just finds old posts.

Will have to try this new fangled "Advanced" search!