I believe your forum search function needs some looking at.
Its filtering system or mechanics are too broad and it mostly fails as a useful modern search engine. It's far too simplistic and omits 90 percent of the words and looks to me to be acceptable because the search function application has such little load on the servers. Personally, I don't think that's a viable reason to make people struggle with a search or just give up because it returns pages of no matches.
If I input "where are the log files" the engine should not arbitrarily drop off almost all the words in the inquiry. It actually ignores log, where, are, the...
That makes this very useless. The returns are all over the map and meaninglessly numerous.
Please, could some one look into this problem and see if there is a solution, because as the search function is now, it is mostly a waste of time.
Yes, we have time right now, but this has been since I've started 3 years ago. And even though I'm sitting on my butt, I have better things to do than grind through 10's of pages of a search return if I was trying to help someone on a thread and needed a link to a informative staff post. The staff has done a very nice job with the forums but leaving the search function as nothing more than a token clicker seems below the quality that the staff is striving for.
Thank you for reading.
Stay safe.
Its filtering system or mechanics are too broad and it mostly fails as a useful modern search engine. It's far too simplistic and omits 90 percent of the words and looks to me to be acceptable because the search function application has such little load on the servers. Personally, I don't think that's a viable reason to make people struggle with a search or just give up because it returns pages of no matches.
If I input "where are the log files" the engine should not arbitrarily drop off almost all the words in the inquiry. It actually ignores log, where, are, the...
That makes this very useless. The returns are all over the map and meaninglessly numerous.
Please, could some one look into this problem and see if there is a solution, because as the search function is now, it is mostly a waste of time.
Yes, we have time right now, but this has been since I've started 3 years ago. And even though I'm sitting on my butt, I have better things to do than grind through 10's of pages of a search return if I was trying to help someone on a thread and needed a link to a informative staff post. The staff has done a very nice job with the forums but leaving the search function as nothing more than a token clicker seems below the quality that the staff is striving for.
Thank you for reading.
Stay safe.