Search facility

[Deimos]

Its now nice to have a search facility that at least

searches.  However, the fact that the

results are presented in what appears a random date order make it somewhat limited

(in terms of usefulness).

Every forum I know presents search results in chronological order

with the most recent first (though there are sometimes options to show them in

a different order – never seen an option for “random order” though).

Are there any plans to have this aspect of the forum

improved ? (or any way round this ?)

Ian

[Tim Stephenson (Archant IS)]

Ian - Search results are now returned in chronological order, newest first.

[Deimos]

Many thanks.

 

However, could you explain how the search selects

posts/threads.  If I do a search for the

word “ash” (without quotes), the search results show the most recent post

containing the word (“ash”) as “Re: How to make a good fire, 09/02/2006.  However, there is a post I made 11/02/2006

which contains the work “ash” which does not even appear in the first page of

search results (going back to 18/10/2004 (long before the thread with my post

was even started.  I have to go to page

2 to see my post.  In summary, doing a

search for “ash”, first page of results shows posts from several different

threads covering the date range 09/02/2006 to 18/10/2004 whilst the 2^nd

page shows posts in the date range 10/02/2006 to 15/01/2006 and page 3

29/12/2005 to 02/02/2004, page 4 from 12/11/2005, etc.

 

Have I misunderstood something ?

Ian

[scott hayes]

Ian,

The searching has now been amended this morning and you should see the results in chronological accross all pages. 

 

[Deimos]

Great improvement. 

Many thanks.

Ian