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Why are common words ignored while searching?
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:03 pm
by The Potatolord
Hey, was thinking of posting a suggestion about a grenade, and I wanted to look through the grenade suggestion posts to see what was already posted so I don't repost. Search doesn't let you search grenade, though, as it is a too common word. What's the reason for having searching limited, and is there anyway to bypass that? If you're trying to search for something generic, like grenades, you should be able too, right? I just can't find a reason as to why search limits you to more uncommon words
Re: Why are common words ignored while searching?
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:06 pm
by RickAvory
The Potatolord wrote: āMon Dec 03, 2018 12:03 pm
Hey, was thinking of posting a suggestion about a grenade, and I wanted to look through the grenade suggestion posts to see what was already posted so I don't repost. Search doesn't let you search grenade, though, as it is a too common word. What's the reason for having searching limited, and is there anyway to bypass that? If you're trying to search for something generic, like grenades, you should be able too, right? I just can't find a reason as to why search limits you to more uncommon words
It is very annoying. Iām not sure Mythologic can do much about it. We should complain to phpBB
Re: Why are common words ignored while searching?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:19 am
by GreenyShark
Doesn't Mythologic interactive set which words are ignored?
I don't like this feature because I constantly find myself looking for old forum post and not being able to search for them because in characters are ignored
Re: Why are common words ignored while searching?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 6:08 pm
by Gurt
We use phpBB 3.1 forums. I don't know if we can disable that common words feature. If anyone know which settings to change to make the search work for common words please share how to do it. We simply prioritize to spend our limited time elsewhere (working on the game).
Re: Why are common words ignored while searching?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:19 pm
by Ciro
Gurt wrote: āFri Dec 07, 2018 6:08 pm
We use phpBB 3.1 forums. I don't know if we can disable that common words feature. If anyone know which settings to change to make the search work for common words please share how to do it. We simply prioritize to spend our limited time elsewhere (working on the game).
Found this:
ACP > General (tab) > Server Configuration > Search Settings > "Common word threshold"
A higher number will allow more occurrences. Zero will disable the feature.
The Search Index needs to be rebuilt after any change: Maintenance (tab) > Search Index > "Delete index" (then (re)"Create index").
Here:
https://support.ourboard.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1978
Reindexing seems to take some though.
Re: Why are common words ignored while searching?
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 4:06 pm
by Gurt
I swapped search engine to mySQL fulltext, reindexing took 5 seconds.
Search seem to be working. You can search for "grenade" now.
Thanks for the tip.