Official Racketboy Suggestion Forum Thread

[racketboy]

Can somebody tag me?
I thought I had a notification for it, but I don't see it in the history.
The notification function is a little confusing, it seems.

@racketboy

That do anything?

Well, I have a notification, but I subscribe to the thread and I was quoted on the post (and the notification mentions the quoting), but I don't feel like I've gotten a notification on every post for subscriptions.

[racketboy]

Well, I've added it to my todo list just in case we don't get this figured out.

[REPO Man]

@ziggy @maruren

Did it work?

[marurun]

Can somebody tag me?
I thought I had a notification for it, but I don't see it in the history.
The notification function is a little confusing, it seems.

@racketboy

That do anything?

Well, I have a notification, but I subscribe to the thread and I was quoted on the post (and the notification mentions the quoting), but I don't feel like I've gotten a notification on every post for subscriptions.

I believe the default is to be notified when you are quoted, whether you are watching a thread or not. So I don't think there's any tagging functionality turned on.

[racketboy]

@racketboy

That do anything?

Well, I have a notification, but I subscribe to the thread and I was quoted on the post (and the notification mentions the quoting), but I don't feel like I've gotten a notification on every post for subscriptions.

I believe the default is to be notified when you are quoted, whether you are watching a thread or not. So I don't think there's any tagging functionality turned on.

Ok -- well at least the quoting notification is handy. Like I said, I have the tagging on my to-do list now.
BTW, in more in-depth conversations about customizing forum themes. We might actually have multiple themes that have the RB logo/menus added to them, if all goes well!

[Ziggy]

Ok -- well at least the quoting notification is handy. Like I said, I have the tagging on my to-do list now.
BTW, in more in-depth conversations about customizing forum themes. We might actually have multiple themes that have the RB logo/menus added to them, if all goes well!

That's all great news, thanks so much for your hard work on the forum!

[Ziggy]

I just noticed something that I think changed in the search function with the forum software update. I cannot search for things that are less than 4 characters. I'm almost positive that I remember being able to search for things like "PS2" or "GBA" and stuff like that. But now when I do, it returns an error message. Is it possible to edit the search function to allow for this?

So for example, if I want to find a PS2 thread but I don't remember the exact content, or perhaps I just want to find any threads about PS2 stuff, I can search for "PS2" in thread titles only and get very useful results that way. But since the forum doesn't allow for searches of less than 4 characters, this is not possible.

[racketboy]

I just noticed something that I think changed in the search function with the forum software update. I cannot search for things that are less than 4 characters. I'm almost positive that I remember being able to search for things like "PS2" or "GBA" and stuff like that. But now when I do, it returns an error message. Is it possible to edit the search function to allow for this?

So for example, if I want to find a PS2 thread but I don't remember the exact content, or perhaps I just want to find any threads about PS2 stuff, I can search for "PS2" in thread titles only and get very useful results that way. But since the forum doesn't allow for searches of less than 4 characters, this is not possible.

It does look like that the MySQL Fulltext search does have a "Min characters indexed by search" of 4.
I'll research if it's possible to change it to three or if it's a hardcoded thing. But in the admin, I'm not seeing an easy place to change it.

[marurun]

I just noticed something that I think changed in the search function with the forum software update. I cannot search for things that are less than 4 characters. I'm almost positive that I remember being able to search for things like "PS2" or "GBA" and stuff like that. But now when I do, it returns an error message. Is it possible to edit the search function to allow for this?

So for example, if I want to find a PS2 thread but I don't remember the exact content, or perhaps I just want to find any threads about PS2 stuff, I can search for "PS2" in thread titles only and get very useful results that way. But since the forum doesn't allow for searches of less than 4 characters, this is not possible.

It does look like that the MySQL Fulltext search does have a "Min characters indexed by search" of 4.
I'll research if it's possible to change it to three or if it's a hardcoded thing. But in the admin, I'm not seeing an easy place to change it.

They key here is that indexing smaller words will cause the index to get a lot larger and put a greater burden on resources when searching. Whether that's significant or not an impact is another thing altogether.