[stux]

Sorry, but it sucks.

it's nowhere near as good as the old one....

[Waz]

Agree

[Rhys]

Its terrible

[EdLeake]

What don't you like?

I'll post up feedback on the developers support forum to see if there's anything they can do.

[sinbad]

If your searching for 2 words your screwed. I cant seem to get it to show results with BOTH words in hte thread topic, instead it searches topics for the 1st word and the 2nd word individually. Previously you could use "AND" and that would work.
You can search for a word for example "live" and in the results it will bring up words like delivery. I know this is a pretty bad example but im sure you understand what i mean.

I find it really difficult to find the stuff i need. I have to try and remember a word that distincly refers to that particular topic. I was looking for the thread that had the HSV V10 race car engine specs, and dates of its racing debut. I tried loads of combinations and words, even though i knew the thread existed it never showed up in the results field.

Maybe and this is only a suggestion that the forum topics are changed... If im looking for say info on some brakes, which section do i look in? ATR specific tuning? Problems and solutions tuning your car? or problem and solutions Brakes wheels & tyres? All three? I know you'd probably say ATR specific tuning, but realistically i could find my answer in any of those categories. It maybe me but i think changing the sections could help the search function do its job, its more difficult to search on here than any other forum ive used.

The site upgrades have worked well, its just taken some time to get used to it, however i feel the search function has took a slight step back. I could be using the function wrong but i hope the above is taken as constructive

This post has been edited by sinbad: 22 March 2010 - 11:17 AM

[stux]

With the old search, you'd type something in and it would appear on page 1. The new search will have you sifting through 8 pages of irrelevent stuff before you find it.

also, try searching for 'typhoon'. The same topic appears 19 times on the first page instead of just once, so the search engine is posting up a hit for every post in the thread which contains that word. The old search engine would only show the thread once, which was more user friendly

[sinbad]

stux2004, on 22 March 2010 - 11:29 AM, said:

With the old search, you'd type something in and it would appear on page 1. The new search will have you sifting through 8 pages of irrelevent stuff before you find it.

also, try searching for 'typhoon'. The same topic appears 19 times on the first page instead of just once, so the search engine is posting up a hit for every post in the thread which contains that word. The old search engine would only show the thread once, which was more user friendly

Good point!

[toyracer69]

sinbad, on 22 March 2010 - 11:42 AM, said:

stux2004, on 22 March 2010 - 11:29 AM, said:

With the old search, you'd type something in and it would appear on page 1. The new search will have you sifting through 8 pages of irrelevent stuff before you find it.

also, try searching for 'typhoon'. The same topic appears 19 times on the first page instead of just once, so the search engine is posting up a hit for every post in the thread which contains that word. The old search engine would only show the thread once, which was more user friendly

Good point!

Try the advanced search and click topic titles only.

[sinbad]

toyracer69, on 22 March 2010 - 11:50 AM, said:

Try the advanced search and click topic titles only.

Sometimes your searching for whats in the topic and not the specific topic title

[Stoo]

Using the "search topic titles only" will only return results where "typhoon" is in the title... most of the time the title isn't what you need to search - it's the posts.

As with Stu's example, I searched for "typhoon" and the first 3 results didn't even contain the word they simply happen to be a post in a topic where another post has the required word.

Have to agree, it's a bit difficult to find stuff.

[stux]

Advanced search shouldn't be necessary. It never used to be.

[TIMBOLAND]

have to agree with all above
the old search was a dream to be honest i never had any problems

[stux]

A revised search function would be lovely.

[obriener2054]

tried searchig for threads by Jules

http://www.accordr.o...s&name=J&st=340


was using it yesterday to check for threads by tez_14_2000 and only about ten came up

it seems that any topis that became locked at the changeover dont show up


i honestly think we should go back to the old forum..... we;ve gained nothing with the changeover bar a garage.... which is a load of shite anyway.....

i think we should vote

[antiricer]

May I be the first to say:

Meh

[Rhys]

Is there any way to implement a new search function ?

[EdLeake]

Rhys, on 19 August 2010 - 04:07 PM, said:

Is there any way to implement a new search function ?

Not unless you can code PHP?

[Rhys]

EdLeake, on 19 August 2010 - 04:20 PM, said:

Rhys, on 19 August 2010 - 04:07 PM, said:

Is there any way to implement a new search function ?

Not unless you can code PHP?

Only in my sleep

[TJ]

Ah, bless