Re: Forum Improvement Suggestions
- Posted by Kat Mar 06, 2009
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Kat, where is your search facility?
Dan
It's now only in Tiggr, my irc bot. It is still active.
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Yes, i know there might be better ways to spec the parameters of the search, or better search commands, but who is using it?
Kat,
Are you willing / able to make it able to work on forum posts, and submit it? If it were here where people could see it, then I'm sure people would try it and give constructive feedback. I know I would.
From what i am told, the servers Euforum and RDS run on will not allow the space for a pre-munged db, nor the cpu time to build an answer from scratch on demand. This forum has been down several times just today from other domains on the shared host eating all the cpu time.
If you mean a program that people can download and make a local copy of the archive and euforum, and am *really* sure the hosting companies would bankrupt RDS over the bandwidth used if everyone suddenly downloaded every file on both domains.
I've tried the existing forum search, and it is pretty much useless, as it seems only to search on the SUBJECT of posts, rather than the CONTENT.
Dan
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Yeas, frustrating isn't it? To do it right may take more than the hosting co is willing to allow. I think the forum is a larger dataset than the archives, but i am not sure. I am sure it's more files, if each post is a separate file (may not be stored that way, maybe it's in EDS, i don't care or know). Also, the forum is rife with misspellings (even people's names are misspelled occasionally, heck i once typo'd "kat"), whereas the files in the archives must have at least the Eu language keywords spelled correctly.
There's ways around nearly all problems, but without at a bare minimum a host with spare cpu and/or abundant bandwidth, i don't think merely uploading my code and the db will help, and is likely to severely hurt the useabilty of the forum and/or archives.
Anyhow, while the db is premunged by Eu code, the irc server is in mirc because it was the fastest way to get it online, code is available at http://euphoria.pastey.net/109621 . And before you say mirc cannot be used on http for euforum and the archives, Tiggr has a threaded multitasking http server inside her, written also in mirc but that's offtopic.
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