Forum search updates

Today I decided that we should keep track of the forum messages that have been tagged as “Official post”

As it turns out, it was a good thing the code is getting updated, because due to the way messages are parsed, official posts  never got indexed at all. Our indexer just skipped them entirely. Oops! So the code has now been fixed to include official posts and also adds this additional info bit into our database. We’ll push out the new feature later today.

In case you haven’t noticed already, we changed the Forum Search page to have separate search fields for topic, message, sender and receiver. You might remember that the old Popodeus website had same kind of search interface and due to some pressure, we changed back to that old style interface. The one field search (which is much more powerful, if you know how to use it…) can still be accessed by http://popodeus.com/forum-search/legacy.jsp. It’s our fault that this one field style search wasn’t as popular, since we failed to provide good examples on how to use it. Some day, someone will probably take their time to write a power user’s guide… maybe.

Anyways, happy searching. And if you have suggestions for improvements, tell us.