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Search broken?
05-07-2009, 02:53 AM
Seems like it is... three different searches now, all for topics that I know exist (and can find manually by scrolling through the past posts), nada. Also, a
search on my own username failed to turn up any results either.
--sofaspud
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it's not just you. I'm getting 0 results as well.
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Search has always been broken in some way. Moving from ezBoard to Yuku didn't change this at all.
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Well, yes, you have a point there Bob. But what I mean is it's broken more than usual. Extra-broken this time, if you will.
(Usually I can rely on the username search working, at least, which makes it loads easier to find the old stuff I'm looking for.)
--sofaspud
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Any news on this?
The yuku search had actually been working fairly well for me, but now I'm getting zero results for things that I know should bring up something...
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Bump.
It's rather frustrating, really; I'm attempting to update the fiction archive, and without even a working username-based search, I'm having to go
through page... by... page... *falls over*
--sofaspud
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Any chance we can get the Yuku people to look into this? Because there's an awful lot of stuff I have buried in the Fenspace forum that I'd like to
dredge up, and not all of it is in threads I authored.
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It'll have to wait until I get back from my vacation, unfortunately, because I'll have to shepherd a ticket through the support process.
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Ah yes. Be nice if there was a such thing as a support system where you didn't have to do the teleconference-equiviliant of having forms in triplicate
brought up the support center's chain-of-command in person every step of the way. :p
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Yeah, you'd think you could just report a bug and have someone fix it. No, you have to have a user report, escalate the user report, detail the user
report, wait for someone at Yuku to decide that the report is significant and respond, then check back on a regular basis to make sure someone's actually
doing something about it. Then start the process over when the reported success turns out to be bogus. Grrr.
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Bump.
10-01-2009, 02:40 AM
Still b0rked.
What's worse is, Yuku claims on the search results page that the board was last indexed less than a minute ago. Literally, it claims that the last index
and the last post happened at the same exact instant.
Now, maybe it is? But if so... the search function ain't using the index, or, the index itself isn't working.
(I have the amusing mental image of someone at Yuku doing the equivalent of copying everything to dev/null and marveling at how fast it finishes, but with the
indexes instead.)
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Random addition to this, but in a fit of inspiration, I realized I could just search threads via tag....
Apparently that still falls under "search", and thus is as broken as attempting a straight keyword search. So, ah, tagging ones' threads is
effectively useless for attempting to index stuff.
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If you click on a tag at the top of a subject list page, then yes, it's broken.
If you click on a tag in a message thread, it works.
So it's the search that's broken, not the tags...
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For just considering the the Legendary Forum, you can use this to search for tags:
Code: http://drunkardswalkforums.yuku.com/forum/view/id/10/mode/or/addtags/xxx/
Wherein 'xxx' is the search tag you'd be looking for. I'd assume that changing the 'id/10' to another number would select a different forum. This appears to be not a search, but rather a filter, and is still functional.
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Thank you, Rod.
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Looks like they're working hard at the issue. Now all we gotta do is to keep bugging them. 
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I've been pestering them for a month now, over in the support thread. As of my test a few minutes ago, it looks like it might well be fixed.
If that holds through tomorrow I'll update the support thread with a thank-you.
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It seems to be checking out for me as well.
About bloody time, too.
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Wow, cool. And suddenly I am embarrassed that I wasn't the one harassing them. Thank you, Spud, you go above and beyond the call of duty.
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(Ergh. I hate losing unposted messages to a wonky auto-fill system...)
It's better now, yes, but it's not completely fixed yet.
A couple of weeks back, I did a few searches in "The Game Everyone Loves to Play", looking for some old posts I'd made; I came up completely dry, no hits at all.
Just now, I repeated those searches, and got mixed results.
First, I searched for my username with the "quick search" box, which I presume is the same as the advanced-search "search by keywords" option. I got two genuine hits (from the same thread) and one false positive. The genuine hits both had my name in the body of the post (e.g. quoting me), and there were multiple posts from me in that thread which were not found by the search.
Second, I searched for my username with the advanced-search "search by user name" option. I got no hits at all.
I know for a fact that I've made more posts than that in that forum, and I'm fairly sure some of them are recent enough that they're still in the database (and that I've found them while manually searching backwards through the history). IOW: something's still not right.
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I'm not sure advanced search ever worked right for me, but I seem to be getting some good results from keyword searching. (Which I think wouldn't find your posts unless your name was in the actual post body.)
I do note that there doesn't seem to be a way to search by thread title... o.O
Here's where I start finding my habit of directly typing my name at the end of posts convenient. '.'
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Okay, here's what a little bit of testing has turned up for me. Can anyone corroborate?
#1: Advanced Search -> Search by Username for "Sofaspud": results are exactly as expected -- every post I've made on the selected forums shows up. Note: I had to switch it to sort by date before the results made -sense-, but they are accurate.
#2: Advanced Search -> Search by Keyworld for "Sofaspud": results again exactly as expected -- only those posts that have "sofaspud" in them -- quoted, referred to directly, whatever -- appear. Note that it does not appear to include the signature in its search.
#3: Quick Search -> "sofaspud": same results as #2, ie, it's a keyword search.
Looks to me like it's working exactly as designed. Finally.
--sofaspud
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If I search by someone else's username, it works fine. However, if I search by my own username, I still get no hits.
This may perhaps have something to do with the fact that, when I signed up for this account two forum hosters ago, the hoster-wide version of the username was already taken; it offered to let me have the username "just for this particular set of forums", and I took that option.
It's therefore possible that when I search for my username, it's looking for posts made by the Yuku-wide version of the account, and not finding any. Rather irritating, but would at least be comprehensible...
(Of course, the "advanced search" is still ridiculously limited; the only meaningful options not available in the "quick search" are search-by-username and the option to search any arbitrary set of forums at once. That's another rant, though.)
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Advanced search is working for me now too. Wasn't earlier.
I think the only thing that really feels missing from the search to me would be a "search in topic title" function.
-Morgan.
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