Please restore the old Search

[JellyBaby]

This new search makes searching far too difficult. Now I'm forced to choose something for "Select What" and also click 17 checkboxes to indicate I want to search everything.

I often do a Username search on my handle to see what posts I've been active in recently. This new search makes this unnecessarily difficult to pull off. Btw, can you add a feature to search all topics for a username in both the title and body? That would be a handy addition. Or if nothing else store my selection for "Search by:" in my cookie. That would at least save me one click.

This all being said I like the new search options. Please keep them but tuck them in an Advance Search screen or something.

Thanks for listening!

EDIT: I see you've restored it while I was typing this message! Talk about service.

 

[Digobick]

<< I see you've restored it while I was typing this message! Talk about service. >>

We have the old FuseTalk back.

 

[GT1999]

JellyBaby- Huge nod to that! Thank god it's back to the old right now, MUCH easier to search for my old threads to see if anybody has replied, etc. I hated the same thing you mentioned, clicking all of those damn boxes.

It's running awesome now though. The old forums seem much quicker, also. Must be a lot of upgrading going on..

G|T

 

[JellyBaby]

BUMP, same concern again.

 

[apoppin]

JellyBaby, Haven't you noticed the &quot;Select All&quot; feature.

GOOD WORK, zuni!

 

[GT1999]

The &quot;Select All&quot; button is working wonders for me. 100% resolved here.

Thanks Zuni!

 

[JellyBaby]

Yep, I did see Select All. My point is simply that it now takes me 4 clicks instead of the old 2 to perform the same operation (searching on my handle). The user interface should consider the user, always. Here a change was made to the UI that makes it more difficult to use. This is going in the wrong direction. I applaud the advanced features but I'd rather have the old way back because it's quicker and easier for how I search.

Why can't my preference just be saved in a cookie or server-side? That's the ideal solution. Just save the my last choices when I click Search.

 

[Jason Clark]

Jellybaby really? Users asked for this over 50 users infact asked for this feature. So WE CATERED to the user.

 

[JellyBaby]

Hi, Zuni.

Again, the new features are great and I thank you for taking time to implement them! But it now takes 4 steps to search on my username where before it took only 2. That's my point.

The best solution is to save our preferences for Keyword:, Search What:, Search by, etc. in the cookie. That way everybody's happy (except maybe you as I know it takes work!).

Either way thanks for reading my thread. Most devs would not have bothered.

 

[joshdoe]

The new search does allow for a lot more flexibility. However, I think it would be best if all the boxes were checked by default. I think most people search all the forum instead of just a few parts. Those people that do search specific areas of the forum can just press the deselect-all button.

Besides that, I really like the new forum setup.

 

[warlord]

Uhhh, Hi. My name is Dumas, and I want more flexability in this program, but I don't want to have to do anything more than whay I do now. I am really incapable of clicking my mouse many times a day, so it would be nice if you just... STFU

I like the new search, it takes a bit more work, but I think it works alot better than the old one. Thanks Zuni, keep up the good work.

 

[Relf Lauren]

I too would like to see the old search feature back!

Relf Lauren

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I've no complaint with the search function, seems to work well and it's easy enought to &quot;select all&quot;. I did get an error the other day though when I put in start and end dates. Seems fine w/o them though.