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Site Management => Site Support / Feedback => Topic started by: ngld on October 29, 2017, 11:31:13 am

Title: New Forum Search
Post by: ngld on October 29, 2017, 11:31:13 am
Most people here like to complain about the forum search. So I thought I'll try to make a better one.
It hasn't indexed all of HLP yet but it should find most stuff.

Anyway, try it out. (https://hlp-search.tproxy.de)

Disclaimer: I didn't write this. I just took an open source search engine and set it up.
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: jr2 on October 30, 2017, 09:10:50 am
Shortened it in case anyone finds that useful:

https://is.gd/HLPsearch
https://is.gd/hlpsearch
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: mjn.mixael on November 06, 2017, 08:58:27 pm
Doesn't seem to work...

https://hlp-search.tproxy.de/hlp/search/?q=derelict&num=20&sort=

Perhaps it was the server change?
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: ngld on November 06, 2017, 10:46:59 pm
Looks like the crawler didn't run and the server eventually removed the stale (outdated) content. I'll see if I can fix it.
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: chief1983 on November 07, 2017, 08:41:18 am
I think one major issue is that the built-in forum has been the only option for searching content protected by the ACL.  And I tend to default to the built in one instead of google because I often can't even remember if what I wanted was from a public or private SCP, FotG, etc thread.
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: mjn.mixael on November 07, 2017, 09:31:27 am
Yeah except that one's not working right now either... so there's currently no way to search the forum.
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: Goober5000 on November 07, 2017, 12:57:34 pm
Gak.  That was supposed to be fixed when the forums were reinstalled.  Will check it out.
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: jr2 on November 07, 2017, 01:29:09 pm
Gak.  That was supposed to be fixed when the forums were reinstalled.  Will check it out.

I noticed that like 2 days ago and just assumed it was something in-progress...  Oops.  :nervous:
Title: Re: New Forum Search
Post by: Goober5000 on November 07, 2017, 03:13:26 pm
Turns out that was a bug in SMF (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=553979.0) that worked in PHP5 but not in PHP7.  It should work now.

All of the functionality on the forums should work, so if you see anything that should be working but isn't (like the search or the [size] tag) please report it.