Obviously one primary goal is to make it faster, but I think search should be more powerful, too. I was hoping you could offer me suggestions as to what enhanced capabilities you would like in the search, as well as what capabilities you would NOT like.

For example, there's no way I'm going to allow searching by username because I think it would be a stalker's dream. But I think being able to search post content could be useful, but I'm still weighing the pros and cons. What do you think?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381048)

so let's say you search for "fuck my ass." the first page of results is:

http://www.xoxohth.com/main.php?forum_id=2&hid=&qu=fuck+my+ass

if you click on ">>(2)>>" at the bottom, it truncates everything after "fuck," which isn't what you want.

BUT, if you take the search URL and add &p=1, we get the actual second page of results:

http://www.xoxohth.com/main.php?forum_id=2&hid=&qu=fuck+my+ass&p=1

if you click on ">>(3)>>" then, once again, it truncates, so just swap the "1" at the end of that URL for "2" and so on.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34383051)

but yeah this would be helpful

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34383916)

AND OR NOT that's it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381073)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381085)

Making the site responsive is a totally different project, and you're welcome to help me with that (once it's ready)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381106)

If you're reluctant to do that, I still think that information retrieval techniques would be useful in making title searches more efficient, less sluggish, and more dynamic (by allowing full boolean search, for example, or even tolerant retrieval).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381203)

The best thing you could do to help right now is work on the html / css templates. Plugging it into the code isn't an option yet because the code is being rewritten. Are you interested?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381431)

We could also post it for people to check out.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34382772)

allow punctuation

filters like date created, most replies, last reply, etc.

only let logged in sudos use it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381292)

I love being able to search for part of a word currently.

The only things that have really bothered me about the current search are the lack of support for punctuation and some problems with multiple word strings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34381578)

Q: if allowing search by username, would you search by all monikers that poaster has assigned, or just the one used when the poast was originally written?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34382056)

Please do not give users the option of searching posts or threads via username.

If it is possible, give posters the option in account settings to scramble their username in posts older than a certain date, so, for example, if I posted in a thread >30 days old, and someone found that thread, all they would see is a random hashtag or [redacted] where you would normally see my screenname. I don't think this would overly detract from the quality of an old thread, but would give posters a lot of protection.

It would give me, and probably others, peace of mind if this was implemented.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34382347)

Posters become obsessed with other posters. I think this will have a chilling effect on the nature of our interactions here since everyone will know they could be held accountable for every stupid post they make. And also, it may shit up the board with spam (i.e. people will bump threads when arguing with another poster to show inconsistent statements or something).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34382575)

That feature could be done if posts were still labeled with a random, per-thread username hash a la 4chan

Doing that could kind of detract from some of the archival value of threads, but I do think it's a valid idea to consider.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34382584)

do you code from scratch or do you pull ideas from stackexchange and github etc?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34382807)

Also, I don't want to spend more money on server resources than I have to, since this isn't exactly VC-backed.

Generally, yes, it's true, don't reinvent the wheel, but custom wheels are kind of nice? Sometimes?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34383387)

On this page, you can search by username, thread title, and thread content, with search date parameters. So for example, you type "AssFaggot" into the username box and type "+nigger -re:" (if you only wanted replies instead of OPs) with date "newer than six months." Then you can really "nail down" the poasts you're trying to find.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34382809)

Do you know how many times I've been told I would be subpoenaed but wasn't, because I preemptively explained this to inquiring attorneys? Many times.

I CARE

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34383212)

Shit I'd have outed myself for 75k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34383486)

At the same time, I see the reason this would be desirable. Any thoughts?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3755662&forum_id=2#34383255)