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It depends on how you look at things. A lot of people drop by this site just to be amused, so maybe there should be an additional stat on members' pages: Number of messages removed. 
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Sorted? I can still see the question. In fact, I downvoted it and reported it as abuse. When I view the member's profile, I can't see the question in their question list. However, why am I able to reach the question with the above link? At the very least, if a link to it is going to work, there should be some indicator on the page that the question was deleted.
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Hans, you do know we have a Get-Together forum?
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Having to go through several pages of my most recently posted messages, or through even more pages of messages posted on a specific forum to find an old post on a subject is a pain. The existing forum search isn't helpful because it doesn't have all forums (eg this one) available to narrow results.
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The message search facility searches the forum it is used on, by default. So if you use it here, it will search "Site Bugs / Suggestions" forum. And you can add forums to the search domain, choosing from the ones that are listed.
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No it doesn't. I just searched here for "Dan Neely", nothing on the first page is from this forum. Site Bugs / Suggestions isn't an option on advanced search.
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You need to stop having multiple search boxes on one page. It's too confusing, especially when the prominent one is the wrong one.
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I personally find it very useful having a local, forum-specific search box.
I'll add date ordering for search results.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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could you also add "This forum" as an option for the main search box dropdown?
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I've added this to the TODO
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've added this to the TODO
Should the amount of time this step took be seen as an indication of how long it will take before it's implemented?
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See the grey search bar just below the top banner? Set the dropdown to "Messages" and enter your search term - it will search all forums.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That assumes I remember approximately what I entered for the subject. If I just enter my name it gives an apparently random subset of the 13.7k messages I've posted.
The number of messages I've posted to bugs/suggestions OTOH is small enough that it would be an easy eyeball search if it returned results in chronological order.
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so what you want is
Search ( ) *Pull down menu* ( ) *Pull Down Menu
By keyword By Location (articles/QA...)
By author
By subject
By some arbitrary item to be determined.
that sound right?
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Just adding bugs/suggestions to the advanced search and adding an order by date option would do what I want. Alternately add "other" to the advanced search page and let the user type the name of any of the missing forums (or articles) into it.
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Dan Neely wrote: an apparently random subset
the results are "sorted by relevance". Please don't ask me what that means.
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Wow. Thanks. I'll need some time to study that, and I probably will be back with some questions...
Cheers.
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OK, that was interesting. I have read it all, it was way above my head. Fortunately we now have antichronological, which is what I always have wanted.
Could you please:
- either persist our combobox selection (relevance/chronological)
- or make chronological the default?
TIA
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It all boils down to: relevance is based on keyword density.
However, the underlying issue here is the SQL word-breaker and indexer is antiquated. We're looking for a replacement.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Dan Neely wrote: it would be an easy eyeball search if it returned results in chronological order.
Done.
(Well, reverse chronological)
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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