Rutabaga Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 1. Turn down the severity of "flood control." 8 or 10 seconds between searches is too long. If a search doesn't work, let people make a new search right away. A setting of 3 or 4 seconds would surely be sufficient for whatever the perceived problem is. 2. Allow three-letter words to be part of the search (and, I presume, part of the indexing). I recently ran a search for the story title 'The Way You Say My Name' and discovered that the only thing searched on was the word "name." 3. Clean up the behavior when a search string is entered with quotation marks (i.e., looking for a literal match). At present the results are unpredictable. Don't know whether any of these things are possible but I thought it would be worth mentioning. R Link to comment
Graeme Posted May 30, 2015 Report Share Posted May 30, 2015 Items 2 and 3 are, I believe, built into the forum software and are not configurable. I don't know about item 1, but I don't usually do a lot of searches. Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted May 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 From my research it appears that the flood control setting (in seconds) is here: ACP > Member Groups > Manage User Groups The number entered represents seconds. If it's blank or 0 is entered, flood control is disabled. I would ask again whether there has been an actual problem with overzealous searching, and why flood control is activated at all. At a minimum it would be nice to reduce it to something like 2 or 3 seconds. R Link to comment
Rutabaga Posted May 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 The four-character minimum, I find, is imposed by the default search function of the mySQL database. See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-fine-tuning.html. This can be changed by modifying the configuration file for the mySQL installation, re-starting the database, and reindexing the content. However, apparently the superior answer is to switch to Sphinx as the search engine, something that requires a fair amount of sophistication and root access to the server. Thus I presume that we're stuck with the four-character minimum. R Link to comment
Merkin Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 I barely mastered flipping rapidly through the 3 by 5 card catalog drawers in my university's library before they disappeared. What next, what next? Link to comment
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