Where is the search function?
Marie Tulin
2 years ago
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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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I thought that SEARCH function was fixed?
Comments (2)Yes, Les...I know. What a PITA! Yes...the function was fixed and had worked for a few months now...maybe since Jan sometime. I noticed it was out very late last night, and reported it via the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page. Hopefully they will get it fixed a LOT quicker this time. Plant trading time is heating up (for me and lots of others) and it is a pain to not be able to easily pull up a thread or a member page...sigh. I imagine it is just as important too to seed traders...still wanting to find those seeds for planting this growing season...sigh. Sue...See MoreTrouble using the search function
Comments (8)I don't think the archives are being saved as to dates. It looks like a matter of numbers (space). 67 pages, 30 posts on each, 2010 archive total. When a new post is made, # 2010 drops away - gone. I don't know if it was always done this way, or if I just noticed it, but do to the pace of the forum we're only saved back to the middle of March 07 as of now. I've actually started a little notebook on the orchids on my "want (must have) list", and I try to read from the back forward a little each day to take a few notes. I won't be able to search/research it later..;0( It looks like once this info is gone, it's just - gone. Pat........See Moresearch function is now working!
Comments (7)In case that didn't make sense... I did a search for Poisondartfrog. The result came up: poisondartfrog A+ Â Posted by: windsurfgirl z6 OK on Wed, Mar 14, 07 at 13:23 Â 18 follow-ups, last one posted on Wed, Oct 24, 07 at 19:13 I just did an exchange with poisondartfrog for some Artemisa Limelight. It was a nice clump of roots as she told me it would be. It even had nice healthy green sprouts popping up. I was very happy with it and the way it was packaged. She shipped i The last post was on Oct. 24, 07 So I clicked on page 9 taking a guess. It was the end of Nov. So I clicked on page 16 which was the beginning of Oct. So I knew was in between and got to page 13 where I could add to the post if I had wanted to. : ) Remy...See MoreSEARCH function 101
Comments (17)I would say repost it Barbararose, but the reality is that absent a "sticky" function, that thread will soon be just another lost thread. One not particularly satisfying "workaround" is to refind threads/posts worthy of note and create a new thread containing a link to the post, and put a "special" word in the new post's title so that word can be used as a search key in the future. (I know of no way to edit the title of a thread without simply reposting it.) Such word could be something like "stickie", or "repost", or "Look here", but it should be a word/term that is generally agreed upon. Unfortunately, without the ability to note "special" threads, even such a word or term will at some point be "lost in the archives". Of course, should the thread that first notes the "special word or phrase" be resurrected periodically for the next nine years, like the now-infamous "death of a forum" thread, it should become 'corporate culture' at the vermicomposting site. Maybe by then, Garden Web will have upgraded the forum software to include a "stickie" function. By the way, there's more to implementing a "stickie" function than just "poof, you now have a stickie function". Most importantly, it costs money because "stickies" 1) increase storage requirements (in truth trivially, but let's do keep in mind that this site is about money, not "goodness"), and 2) "someone" - usually someone called a "moderator" - has to be the arbiter of what gets "stuck". Either Garden Web modifies the whole forum to allow such administrative control to specific people for each sub-forum, or they have to take that responsibility on themselves. The first means more potential for getting hacked, and the second means modifying the forum administration software. Both cost money. As "difficult" as the above might sound, the truth is that simply using a "modern" forum software package would completely mitigate all the 'trouble' associated with the change, and improve the editor and improve the search engine. BUT, it most certainly would cost money. Paul...See MoreMarie Tulin
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