I was about to bttt the XBOX 360 games thread in Entertainment...I went to search and typed 'xbox' in the search field with Entertainment highlighted and the thread didn't show up...I ControlF'd and found it on the 2nd page of Entertainment

as a test, i searched for 'begonias' in chit chat, and the recent thread(s) did show up

do some sections only show threads >X # of pages from the current page of that section?

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after doing test searches in each section, it seems like the only sections that do not show 'recent threads' in searches are Entertainment and Tech Talk

6/26/2011 9:53:41 PM

xbox games thread is on page two of the search results, six threads up

You say newer threads aren't showing up, but you use an old-ass xbox thread as an example

6/26/2011 10:12:39 PM

yeah i didn't look past the first 20-30 threads in the search just because i knew the thread had been replied to fairly recently

but it seems like it would be better to sort search results by most recent reply date, not thread creation date

6/26/2011 10:17:38 PM

perhaps site 3 will give you the ability to have results ranked either way

most forums do nowadays

6/26/2011 11:12:00 PM

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"please standby for site3"

6/27/2011 2:50:15 AM

I don't think new threads have ever shown up in searches immediately. I recall CrazyJ saying that the search index was rebuilt nightly, so any threads made one day would show up in searches the next. I guess qntmfred might be doing things differently, maybe indexing more frequently, but I doubt it.

6/27/2011 7:00:52 AM

Is it really hard to program a string literal in the search engine??


I mean... if type "the beer" ... i don't want to see every thread with "the" in it. I don't want to see threads with "beer" in it. I want to see threads with "the" and "beer" in it. Not "the" or "beer"

6/27/2011 10:50:24 PM

I don't think you understand the problem of full-text searches.

6/28/2011 11:00:27 AM

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"newer threads not shown in searches?"

so in your mind, a thread created on 11/11/2005 is a newer thread?

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"but it seems like it would be better to sort search results by most recent reply date, not thread creation date"

I do agree with that. That's a feature missing from this site (wouldn't be hard to implement either )

6/28/2011 11:30:04 AM

Site3 has it. this is standard operating procedure for modern webapps.

I'm AstralAdvent and I approved this message.

6/28/2011 2:01:14 PM