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[MERGED] New Search Engine
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Stockholm, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation. Same thing here, never had a problem finding posts before.
Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation. Same thing here, never had a problem finding posts before.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/search.php is what you're trying to access, which is from the dropdown search box at the top. The link should be fixed to the following soon:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/searchbt.php is the one in the yellow link at the top, which does work.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/searchbt.php is the one in the yellow link at the top, which does work.
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We clearly had not fixed the search problems, just because it was re-enabled and the google one off doesn't mean anything has been fixed. We are working on solutions, trying new things out, feedback is appreciated but if it can't be anything more constructive than it "sucks" please don't post (and Saider not just directed at you, at least I see some new information in your post there with the 'watched' threads). Harsh yes, but I will not read through 20 posts of "it sucks" trying to comb through what problems people are having and what features are missing they would like to see returned.
We are here, ready to make changes and see what we can do. So give us what's working for you and what's not.
Here's what I see:
Basic search is improved. It doesn't just return the thread title but gives you where it's found in the thread. Helping you find that information faster.
Advanced search is the problem. There are currently ways to find your own posts and others. Either selecting your name in the Who's Online and going to your User Profile. Or using the Memberlist to search for someone's name and going to their User Profile that way. Both ways are not something that someone is going to think of right away and are not straightforward.
I don't know about 'watched threads' yet as no one gave more information so I'll look at this.
Possible solution is to keep the new search for basic, and to re-enable the advanced search. Could be the best of both worlds here.
We are here, ready to make changes and see what we can do. So give us what's working for you and what's not.
Here's what I see:
Basic search is improved. It doesn't just return the thread title but gives you where it's found in the thread. Helping you find that information faster.
Advanced search is the problem. There are currently ways to find your own posts and others. Either selecting your name in the Who's Online and going to your User Profile. Or using the Memberlist to search for someone's name and going to their User Profile that way. Both ways are not something that someone is going to think of right away and are not straightforward.
I don't know about 'watched threads' yet as no one gave more information so I'll look at this.
Possible solution is to keep the new search for basic, and to re-enable the advanced search. Could be the best of both worlds here.
1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
Im not sure if "find all posts by..." is back up and running, but this is what i am getting.
and my subscribed threads are still there, but they were there before recent search changes
if you need people to act as guinea pigs with things you need to try out, just pm me. id be happy to help
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
Im not sure if "find all posts by..." is back up and running, but this is what i am getting.
and my subscribed threads are still there, but they were there before recent search changes
if you need people to act as guinea pigs with things you need to try out, just pm me. id be happy to help
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ok, looking at the search that we now have (not "all posts by.." but the standard search) i searched a few things and found that it doesnt search the posters username, but does search the title and post.
for a temp fix on the "find posts by..."(just an idea, i dont know web programming at all)
could you do a forced signature, that puts the posters username as a sig automatically?
for a temp fix on the "find posts by..."(just an idea, i dont know web programming at all)
could you do a forced signature, that puts the posters username as a sig automatically?
I'm getting the same message:
1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
GIVE US PERMISSION!!!
1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
GIVE US PERMISSION!!!
A few suggestions, not sure if they can be impemented though. I'm assuming that most searches are for users to find their own threads. On that note:
1. Totally disable search. It seems to be nothing but a huge resource hog. Working, seachless forums are preferable to the alternative. "I can search! But there's nothing to find, the database has crashed again."
2. Set everyone to automatically subscribe to threads they start. Put a page that everyone gets, once the first time they login after this is instuted, describling in big crayola styled letters how to find their threads, and how to subscibe to other threads. Make them click a yes I understand button before proceeding to the forums. If they don't get it after that, well......
If it would help, have all subscriptions deleted after 30 days or so. Maybe 14, many threads are long dead by then.
3. Would pruning year old (or more) threads help at all? I know a few VB forums that do that in order to compact the database. I assume that takes load off the server, especially on keyword searches. I can't see a scenario where needing a thread for 13 months ago is needed. Anything critical can be sticked, perhaps in a hidden archive section.
1. Totally disable search. It seems to be nothing but a huge resource hog. Working, seachless forums are preferable to the alternative. "I can search! But there's nothing to find, the database has crashed again."
2. Set everyone to automatically subscribe to threads they start. Put a page that everyone gets, once the first time they login after this is instuted, describling in big crayola styled letters how to find their threads, and how to subscibe to other threads. Make them click a yes I understand button before proceeding to the forums. If they don't get it after that, well......
If it would help, have all subscriptions deleted after 30 days or so. Maybe 14, many threads are long dead by then.
3. Would pruning year old (or more) threads help at all? I know a few VB forums that do that in order to compact the database. I assume that takes load off the server, especially on keyword searches. I can't see a scenario where needing a thread for 13 months ago is needed. Anything critical can be sticked, perhaps in a hidden archive section.
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Search is a problem because it causes us heavy load, so were trying out a new search engine designed specifically for forums like ours, its called Board Tracker - http://www.boardtracker.com/ , so far they haven't indexed all our threads but they will and we are working with them closely, I will implement a type of view all threads by user, and in an upcoming version you will be able to search by forum, but for now you can't.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hockster
A few suggestions, not sure if they can be impemented though. I'm assuming that most searches are for users to find their own threads. On that note:
1. Totally disable search. It seems to be nothing but a huge resource hog. Working, seachless forums are preferable to the alternative. "I can search! But there's nothing to find, the database has crashed again."
2. Set everyone to automatically subscribe to threads they start. Put a page that everyone gets, once the first time they login after this is instuted, describling in big crayola styled letters how to find their threads, and how to subscibe to other threads. Make them click a yes I understand button before proceeding to the forums. If they don't get it after that, well......
If it would help, have all subscriptions deleted after 30 days or so. Maybe 14, many threads are long dead by then.
3. Would pruning year old (or more) threads help at all? I know a few VB forums that do that in order to compact the database. I assume that takes load off the server, especially on keyword searches. I can't see a scenario where needing a thread for 13 months ago is needed. Anything critical can be sticked, perhaps in a hidden archive section.
1. Totally disable search. It seems to be nothing but a huge resource hog. Working, seachless forums are preferable to the alternative. "I can search! But there's nothing to find, the database has crashed again."
2. Set everyone to automatically subscribe to threads they start. Put a page that everyone gets, once the first time they login after this is instuted, describling in big crayola styled letters how to find their threads, and how to subscibe to other threads. Make them click a yes I understand button before proceeding to the forums. If they don't get it after that, well......
If it would help, have all subscriptions deleted after 30 days or so. Maybe 14, many threads are long dead by then.
3. Would pruning year old (or more) threads help at all? I know a few VB forums that do that in order to compact the database. I assume that takes load off the server, especially on keyword searches. I can't see a scenario where needing a thread for 13 months ago is needed. Anything critical can be sticked, perhaps in a hidden archive section.
Its still not possible to find your own posts by getting into the account screen. Like mentioned above: we don't have permission for that. I hope this will be fixed soon because this is one of the most used features on the board. Without it its virtually impossible to keep track of our own posts 
My problem with the new search method is that if you try to search more than one word it returns nothing.
For example i tried to search this: firey dragon sword
Result: nothing.
Same thing if i searched for more than 1 words, results are 0.
This Board tracker doesn't let u search more than 1 word?
For example i tried to search this: firey dragon sword
Result: nothing.
Same thing if i searched for more than 1 words, results are 0.
This Board tracker doesn't let u search more than 1 word?
When I click on "View All Posts" or "View all threads started by user" from a user's profile page I get this message.
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Delillo, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
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I used to do this all the time. What's up? Clearly viewing all posts from a user is not an administrative feature.
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Delillo, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.
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I used to do this all the time. What's up? Clearly viewing all posts from a user is not an administrative feature.