Searching a chat

@nubnumber1 said in alphabetical search engine:

Don’t get me wrong I like the content of this forum but as a suggestion of improvement could we get an alphabetical search engine. Otherwise, we spend way too much time searching for content.

Thanks

The nodeBB forum search is far from being perfect, I agree. But it is a lot better than the search provided by the old forum software that we abandoned in 2018.

However: In case you have ideas about how to improve the search I recommend that you post your ideas right here:

https://community.nodebb.org/

(cc @djensen )

Great. I have edited the title of the topic and added it to “Tips & Tricks”.

@Panther heh heh Thanks Panther : )

Was pretty sure you could but I’m running slow today : )

How to use the chat tool? Look here: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1246438

@captain-walker
If users upvote your posting by klicking the heart symbol

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this adds to your “reputation”.

Additionally there appears to be a “reward system” that adds for example 200 “points” once your post count exceeds 20,000, regardless of what you have posted (including for example TripleA turn postings).

So “reputation” is the sum of all upvotes (maybe subjective quality, maybe a simple confirmation of taking notice) and quantity (mass posting reward), which - benevolently - might be interpreted as reward for long time membership.

@barnee @djensen
I have just discovered a respective issue on Gihub, that addresses the search problem.
https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/7236

@DMcLaren I fixed this. It’s a stopgap but at least it’s working!