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Posted by: Kagetenshi Feb 19 2008, 05:50 PM

So to access the search interface in any useful manner (the full-option search) now requires three clicks—one on Search to bring up the quick search panel, another on "more search options" to get to a page that's almost identical in functionality (it allows selecting forum to search in, at least), and then a third click on "more options" to finally get to the proper search interface.

Is there any chance that this can be reduced? Best would be getting rid of the quick search panel and just going directly to the "advanced" search interface, but getting rid of the "slightly-more-featureful-but-not-really" page would be a significant improvement, at least.

~J

Posted by: eidolon Feb 19 2008, 09:35 PM

I was going to mention this the other day and forgot.

PLEASE to make the search link just go straight to the "advanced" (i.e. useful) search page.

Posted by: Cthulhudreams Feb 19 2008, 11:37 PM

I would strongly support skipping straight to advanced search too

Posted by: Caine Hazen Feb 19 2008, 11:46 PM

I believe I just took at least 1 step out. Redjack's better at the interface than me, so I'm not sure about getting rid of the "Quick Search" feature and just warping to "Advanced Search"

Give it a try and see if it eases your pain a bit though.

Posted by: Kanada Ten Feb 20 2008, 01:50 AM

Thank you!

Posted by: Kagetenshi Feb 20 2008, 03:23 AM

Pain slightly eased, much appreciated!

~J

Posted by: eidolon Feb 20 2008, 02:54 PM

That is a bit better. Halfway there!

Posted by: Cthulhudreams Feb 21 2008, 02:22 AM

That is great The only strictly improvement would be making the drop down quick search menu a 'mouse over' drop down OR changing it so a second click on search took you to advanced search (I would like this too)

But this is certainly usable. Thanks.

Posted by: Eyeless Blond Mar 4 2008, 05:48 AM

Hey, would it be possible to eliminate that "One of your keywords was 4 characters or less; you fail" condition? Searching long threads for specific words shouldn't be this impossible, and the four-letter thing fails even if the word is in the middle of a long quote.

Posted by: Eyeless Blond Mar 11 2008, 09:36 PM

Huh. I guess that's a no then?

Posted by: eidolon Mar 12 2008, 07:55 PM

QUOTE (Eyeless Blond @ Mar 3 2008, 11:48 PM)

Posted by: Dashifen Mar 14 2008, 09:52 PM

I didn't even know it was a problem, but I, too, support the idea.

Posted by: Eyeless Blond Mar 15 2008, 05:36 PM

"One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please go back and increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords."

Well, still there. Is there a problem indexing small words or something? What's really annoying me is how the search fails even if the 3-4 letter word is part of an exact quote.

Posted by: Grinder Mar 16 2008, 07:23 PM

QUOTE (Eyeless Blond @ Mar 15 2008, 06:36 PM)