What the hey?!
If there is a search feature to this forum it's well and truely hidden.
All I want to do is select a post I made a while back but it just isn't possible. Even if you use the "Jump to:" Select box and choose "Your Posts" it's totally useless as all it does is go to the last post of the thread and not your post. Surely you can at least give us a search fearture. It's not hard, seriously. If you find it hard to add a search feature or at least add a feature that allows us to find previous posts then maybe web based databases aren't for you.
There is no search feature anywhere near any of the Forum menus nor anywhere in the user menus.
There is no way to get to a previous post without manually selecting each and every page and using the client's text search feature.
This Forum has no Search
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Palathas
, mars 12 2011 03:19
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Posté 12 mars 2011 - 04:22
Arlana Tabris
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The search has been temporarily disabled due to the heavy traffic.
Even if it is back in its previous way, it still wouldn't help you, as it searched through thread titles and not their content and gave you 51 of the oldest results. It also wouldn't give you the opportunity to jump to a specific post - no feature here does that at the moment.
Your best chance to find your post is either to look through the thread page by page or use Google with results limited to this site: use site:social.bioware.com before your search parameters.
Even if it is back in its previous way, it still wouldn't help you, as it searched through thread titles and not their content and gave you 51 of the oldest results. It also wouldn't give you the opportunity to jump to a specific post - no feature here does that at the moment.
Your best chance to find your post is either to look through the thread page by page or use Google with results limited to this site: use site:social.bioware.com before your search parameters.
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Posté 13 mars 2011 - 07:53
Angleiron47
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Thanks, I thought I was losing my mind.
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Posté 14 mars 2011 - 06:02
Karll
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Makes the forums pretty useless to find an answer to your problems, doesn't it?
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Posté 14 mars 2011 - 07:06
Diego Vargas
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Seriously, no search feature because of overloading?
Well thats what you get when you don't use proper bulletin board software like vbulletin...
I mean if you guys are going to use something nonstandard, host your boards with google or something. AFIAK its free and their search features work!
Well thats what you get when you don't use proper bulletin board software like vbulletin...
I mean if you guys are going to use something nonstandard, host your boards with google or something. AFIAK its free and their search features work!
Modifié par Diego Vargas, 14 mars 2011 - 07:07 .
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Posté 14 mars 2011 - 01:53
meesterdave
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Any chance bioware could get a sticky post up saying that search is unavailable and suggesting the google site: search? It's not obvious that search is unavailable and I can't search to find out that search is disabled 
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Posté 15 mars 2011 - 11:15
Domar
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So why pick or keep to a site standard for a very popular game forum which does not allow searches?? Considering the many questions people could have, all other game forums seem to think a search function is a good idea and have chosen a site standard where such a feature works without problem.
This is not the only strange limitation of this site (I actually came to this part of the forum to look for an answer how to browse blog or album entries of a given category, but couldn't see if it's been stated somewhere, as there's no search feature). As much as Bioware is a cut above the competition when it comes to the standard of their games, they're below the rest when it comes to the standard of their game forums. Which is a rather odd discrepancy, a drive for excellency in one area of the game business, falling to a certain degree of negligence in another.
Maybe they haven't realized it yet, but a good game forum is the best way to strengthen the fan following of released and upcoming games. We're talking money here.
This is not the only strange limitation of this site (I actually came to this part of the forum to look for an answer how to browse blog or album entries of a given category, but couldn't see if it's been stated somewhere, as there's no search feature). As much as Bioware is a cut above the competition when it comes to the standard of their games, they're below the rest when it comes to the standard of their game forums. Which is a rather odd discrepancy, a drive for excellency in one area of the game business, falling to a certain degree of negligence in another.
Maybe they haven't realized it yet, but a good game forum is the best way to strengthen the fan following of released and upcoming games. We're talking money here.
Modifié par Domar, 15 mars 2011 - 12:55 .
