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homesick_alien
Searching the Discourse
May 23rd, 2008, 8:11pm  
Hello,

It would be nice to have an option for showing every thread only once among the search results, and not many posts of the same thread, even if they contain the search string.

In addition, I think that the 25 maximum results are not enough, now that the discourse has so much information - in all of my searches I add a zero in the end of this '25' so that I know I will get as much as possible..

Thank you Smiley
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PhiLho 
Re: Searching the Discourse
Reply #1 - May 23rd, 2008, 9:48pm  
Discourse is based on YaBB 1, so unless they hack the code, or there is options there, they can't do much.

Now, I see YaBB is at version 2.2.1, perhaps an upgrade would be useful, if easily done.
I miss some features (saw in phpBB, I don't know for YaBB) like setting all threads as read in a forum.
And keeping the topic summary after a preview...
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homesick_alien
Re: Searching the Discourse
Reply #2 - Jan 17th, 2009, 4:36pm  
Sorry to bring this up again, but I would like to know if someone knows a way to see the search results in a more efficient way.

I mean that when I search for something, I get let's say the first 10 posts that belong to the same thread, and if this thread is not relevant to my search, it is annoying to keep scrolling until I reach something better.

Do you know if it is possible to just show the threads on the results?

Thanks and sorry for repeating..
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fjen
Re: Searching the Discourse
Reply #3 - Jan 17th, 2009, 5:46pm  
try this search via google:

Code:

site:processing.org inurl:yabb_beta "please search"


where "please search" would be the text to search for.

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homesick_alien
Re: Searching the Discourse
Reply #4 - Jan 25th, 2009, 2:15pm  
Thank you very much for the help.

Based on your idea, i made a simple search plugin for firefox - nothing special but i prefer to use it when searching the forum Smiley

You can get it at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10486/ if you want - but as it is in the sandbox, you will have to login there.
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homesick_alien
Re: Searching the Discourse
Reply #5 - Apr 10th, 2009, 5:08pm  
Great, experimental addons no longer require you to login, so it can be added much easier..

Enjoy! (and if you feel like, leave a rating/review, as it will help it go out of the sandbox..)

Thanks!

update: I just realized that now there is an option to "Display only one result per thread" when performing a search, so this addon might not be very useful anymore Smiley (it bypasses the limit of 25 maximum results though!)
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