Post by evets on Apr 6, 2010 12:13:56 GMT -5
Three suggestions on how to improve the search function.
1. Have a small little search bar that is part of the layout of the forums, so that rather than clicking "search" then loading the search page and THEN searching, one could simply click in the box, type what they want to search for, hit enter and see the results. For an example of what I'm talking about, see the forums for the game Torchlight, its really well done and looks very neat: forums.runicgames.com/
2. In the results, it lists individual posts where the search term was found, but it has no obvious links to the actual thread that the post was from. This is kinda important on a forum since posts by themselves have no context and don't make sense. Search results need to link to threads in an obvious way. They don't link at all now, unless I can't see it, in which case it needs to be made clearer.
3. There is a bug in the search page that makes the page stop working, which can be duplicated as follows:
- search for any term using the search page.
- once you see the results, click 'back' on your browser to return to the search page.
- Attempt to search for something else.
- Nothing happens. Hitting enter does nothing, clicking the search button does nothing.
To make it work again, you need to visit a different page on the forum, then click search again to reload the script. I'm 98% sure this is a javascript problem. No I don't know how to fix it.
1. Have a small little search bar that is part of the layout of the forums, so that rather than clicking "search" then loading the search page and THEN searching, one could simply click in the box, type what they want to search for, hit enter and see the results. For an example of what I'm talking about, see the forums for the game Torchlight, its really well done and looks very neat: forums.runicgames.com/
2. In the results, it lists individual posts where the search term was found, but it has no obvious links to the actual thread that the post was from. This is kinda important on a forum since posts by themselves have no context and don't make sense. Search results need to link to threads in an obvious way. They don't link at all now, unless I can't see it, in which case it needs to be made clearer.
3. There is a bug in the search page that makes the page stop working, which can be duplicated as follows:
- search for any term using the search page.
- once you see the results, click 'back' on your browser to return to the search page.
- Attempt to search for something else.
- Nothing happens. Hitting enter does nothing, clicking the search button does nothing.
To make it work again, you need to visit a different page on the forum, then click search again to reload the script. I'm 98% sure this is a javascript problem. No I don't know how to fix it.