Suggest some improvements!

[Mark]

So you are saying that it will not search for words that have those three letters in the middle of another word, correct?

If this is the case, perhaps there is a way to negate certain words such as "the" or "and" to avoid the problem rather than negate the ability to search by three letter words completely {I.E. "MEG" (or any publisher acronym), "hex", "war", "rod", "NPC", "ice" or "Elf"}? Not to mention all of the character class abrreviations.

I understand the difficulty, but am hoping that there is a better solution than just turning it off completely under four letter words...

 

[Liquide]

So you are saying that it will not search for words that have those three letters in the middle of another word, correct?

If this is the case, perhaps there is a way to negate certain words such as "the" or "and" to avoid the problem rather than negate the ability to search by three letter words completely {I.E. "MEG" (or any publisher acronym), "hex", "war", "rod", "NPC", "ice" or "Elf"}? Not to mention all of the character class abrreviations.

I understand the difficulty, but am hoping that there is a better solution than just turning it off completely under four letter words...

Actually I mean it does search for words with those in the middle of themselves.

"or" will result in hits for: fortitude, fortress, armor and or for example.

Sorry if I made that unclear

 

[Liquide]

sorry all, I talked about the d20reviews section not the messageboards. It is late here and my brain does not work to 100%.

 

[Mark]

sorry all, I talked about the d20reviews section not the messageboards. It is late here and my brain does not work to 100%.

Ah, I see. We're on two different tracks, then.

Well, although this isn't about the main site pages, and deals with the message boards, perhaps Blacksway could comment on what would need to be done to make this happen? Thanks.

 

[Blacksway]

I think everyone is getting confused (I know I am).

The d20 reviews pages _will_ let you search on any length string (ok, longer than 1 - you can't search for just "a") and it searches for whatever you type anywhere in the product (so "war" will bring back "Warrior", "Dwarves" and "Award" as well as "War").

I'm might implement a 'whole word' option, so the above example would only return "War" but thats another thing to add to the list of improvements.

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The messageboards on the other hand wont let you search for anything less than a 4 character word. This is I presume built into the software, in an attempt to avoid the problem above. (Note, you can get around this by by searching for "war*" but I wouldn't advice it, as you get thousands of matches, most of which have nothing to do with war!

The messageboards are a commercial product, so we can't change it as easily as other things.

 

[The It's Man]

Since I'm a non-paying member and don't have acces to the search option, I can't test it, but can you add a space to a search string? So if you're looking for the word "war", you type in " war ".
Unfortunatly this way you will not find where the word war is in front and/or followed by a punctuation mark.

 

[johnsemlak]

quoted by Blacksway
Categories (johnsemlak's suggestion):
This one is a good suggestion in priniciple, unfortunately it suffers from many practical problems. 1) it is technically complex, 2) who decides what the categories are/called? 3) who goes through putting all the products into the categories? Trust me - if we run out of other things to do then we'll serisouly consider this, just don't hold your breath

Ok, Blacksway, I get the idea . BTW I'd be very willing to help out in doing the grunt work for that task.

John

 

[Dreaddisease]

Put some distance between the New Thread Button and the Post Reply button.

 

[The It's Man]

The It's Man doesn't fail a saving throw and so won't start a new topic with "Yeah what Dreaddisease said"

 

[Welverin]

Put some distance between the New Thread Button and the Post Reply button.

Better yet get the new thread button out of threads all together and leave it on the individual forum pages.