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Post by cthulhu »

Searching for 'shadowrun' in all forums reports no hits, which is patently a lie, but TNE actually returns a thread.

Is the search index still rebuilding or something?
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Post by Surgo »

It's not just you. PhpBB search is notoriously crap.
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In the Last Post column on the front page, it only says who posted last. Could it be set so that it shows which post was last modified?
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Post by KauTZ »

All the stickies in IMHO have indentation problems. It is slightly mitigated by the fact that everything is split up by separate posts, but it's still really weird. Also, the first post's paragraph titles are super small in all the stickies.
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cthulhu wrote:Searching for 'shadowrun' in all forums reports no hits, which is patently a lie, but TNE actually returns a thread.

Is the search index still rebuilding or something?
phpBB indexes posts when they are created. We inserted data directly in the database, so no index was created for old posts. Once the site is indexed in Google, we can change the search to use Google's site search.
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fbmf wrote:In the Last Post column on the front page, it only says who posted last. Could it be set so that it shows which post was last modified?
You can feel free to look up a MOD using the mod database on phpbb.com. If one exists, I can install it.
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Post by fbmf »

Uhm...in English?

Sorry.

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Is http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... ib_id=3284
what you're talking about?

Sorry, I am not an IT guy.

EDIT: This one looks kewl also:
http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... ib_id=1663

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Post by neilhuiz »

fbmf wrote:Is http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... ib_id=3284
what you're talking about?

Sorry, I am not an IT guy.

EDIT: This one looks kewl also:
http://www.phpbb.com/mods/db/index.php? ... ib_id=1663

Game On,
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That's what I meant. The first one (username in viewtopic) is not likely to work because it is vor version 3.0. We are running 2.0.22.

I'll see what I can do about installing the admin userlist mod, though.

[EDIT] Install went just fine. You now have a nice user listing in the admin panel (last link on the left).
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neilhuiz wrote:
cthulhu wrote:Searching for 'shadowrun' in all forums reports no hits, which is patently a lie, but TNE actually returns a thread.

Is the search index still rebuilding or something?
phpBB indexes posts when they are created. We inserted data directly in the database, so no index was created for old posts. Once the site is indexed in Google, we can change the search to use Google's site search.
Argh, that is.. painful. Is there any way to retroactively index the old posts?
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Post by Cynic »

neilhuiz wrote:
cthulhu wrote:Searching for 'shadowrun' in all forums reports no hits, which is patently a lie, but TNE actually returns a thread.

Is the search index still rebuilding or something?
phpBB indexes posts when they are created. We inserted data directly in the database, so no index was created for old posts. Once the site is indexed in Google, we can change the search to use Google's site search.
As a side, that's a effin weird Database indexing system.

I guess it's easier to index based off of the timecode primarily rather than indexing it off of subject matter? Trying to see this from a coder's pov.
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Post by cthulhu »

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/434

That proclaims to allow you to rebuild the tables for the search tool - would it be possible to get this to fly?
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cthulhu wrote:http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/434

That proclaims to allow you to rebuild the tables for the search tool - would it be possible to get this to fly?
We can either use that, or install a MOD that adds a google search box to the site.

As a note, running the script you linked would take a very long time as it loads every post, one at a time, and then throws it to the standard search indexer. This indexing is usually done when a post is created so that there is a little hit every time you post, rather than a large hit at one time.
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Post by Surgo »

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd much rather have the Google search than phpBB's crappy built-in search.
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Post by CKentavr »

The password dialog says it emails me, but no email ever shows up.

Is your outgoing mail server configured correctly? If I recall, it defaults to pointing at the local address instead of the actual IP for trackbacks. If that's so, my mail server will refuse the mail. (Which is RFC)

Aside from that, my email address should work.

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Post by Maj »

Fbmf can reset your password so that you can log in and edit your own account.
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Post by CatharzGodfoot »

When I try to quote I get a redirect to the index. It could just be my browser setup playing badly with the way phpBB redirects.
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Post by cthulhu »

Surgo wrote:I don't know about anyone else, but I'd much rather have the Google search than phpBB's crappy built-in search.
Google never seems to hit all the posts on a subject, try searching the old den for 'shadowrun' you don't get all the hits.
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Post by Fwib »

Give people both to choose from?
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Post by Maxus »

It makes me log in every single time when I try to post (despite me clicking the 'stay logged in' button, and sometimes it blocks a post and says "Invalid session. Please resubmit form."

So...what gives?
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Post by Zherog »

Log in, then specifically log out. That should remove your cookie. Then, log in and try again.

If that doesn't work, I'd recommend clearing cookies to see if physically deleting it helps.
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Post by Count Arioch the 28th »

Had some issues with that, clearing the cookies seemed to have fixed the issue.
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Post by Crissa »

Annoying: phpBB stores what threads have been visited locally instead of on the server.

That really makes it pretty useless, as every time I switch from computer to computer to read, the threads are marked 'unread' or 'read' by whatever was read on that computer.

It also uses a double redirect and eventually goes to the first post of the day, often meaning it sends me to the same post more than several times.

Is there any way I can just disable this function?

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Post by Prak »

that's odd, because I don't have that problem...
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
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You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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Post by Crissa »

That's odd, because it happens here.

What are you doing differently? Do you log in each time separately?

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