masema
January 22, 2014, 6:25am
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Is there a way to refine a search on this site so that you can ignore a certain board altogether?
You should be able to do this on the search page. Select all boards on the list except for the ones you don’t want to see.
Draconis
January 22, 2014, 1:20pm
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On a similar note, is it possible to reintroduce commonly-used words to the search? I was trying to find mentions of Ron Newcomb’s “Original Parser”, but the word “parser” was removed as being too common.
Juhana
January 22, 2014, 1:24pm
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The forum’s own search is generally pretty useless. Use Google with a site:intfiction.org modifier.
Draconis
January 22, 2014, 1:34pm
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Good idea, I hadn’t thought of that.
Phpbb’s search feature has always been pretty disappointing. The “common words” thing is probably the worst of its problems.
Bulletin board? Sub forum?
dddddd
January 23, 2014, 1:17pm
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Draconis:
On a similar note, is it possible to reintroduce commonly-used words to the search? I was trying to find mentions of Ron Newcomb’s “Original Parser”, but the word “parser” was removed as being too common.
I use the backup of the forum, and local search. Because code blocks are neither part of the forum’s search function.
I thought this was mentioned once before, but in case it wasn’t, backups of all public posts exist at ifarchive.org . This happens once per quarter. Each backup includes the posts since the beginning (not just the new stuff), making it possible to get historical views even if old posts are later edited or deleted.
Private messages, private forums (such as for the IFComp authors) and user account information is not included. The .zip archive for each quarter contains a single large text file cont…
