search results not sorted by date anymore?

[alm4rr]

I usually search under my username in all the forums to keep up with updated threads, but now I went to do it this evening and the results are no longer sorted by last post

any tips?

 

[Vic]

I noticed this too, and was just about to post about it.

 

[tfinch2]

There is a check box on the search page to sort them by date.

 

[Vic]

Hmm... odd that I never had to check that box before this afternoon...

Thanks for the tip though!

 

[sandorski]

weird

 

[Sundog]

Originally posted by: Vic
Hmm... odd that I never had to check that box before this afternoon...

Thanks for the tip though!

It has been that way since the last upgrade.

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Sundog

Originally posted by: Vic
Hmm... odd that I never had to check that box before this afternoon...

Thanks for the tip though!

It has been that way since the last upgrade.

No it hasn't. It just changed for me today as well.

 

[Mill]

:|Change it back - this is CRAP.

 

[sandorski]

FYI, just check the box(check tfinch2's first post) and everything will work fine. For some reason the box unchecked all of a sudden. Must have been Updated or something.

 

[ProviaFan]

I thought this changed many weeks ago with our last "upgrade," after which many of us had to prod Jason into giving us back out date sorted search ("relevancy" my ***, those results aren't relevant when you want the latest updates on something, which I do 99% of the time). Somehow I get it that this "just now changed"; maybe you haven't searched for a few weeks or did so but didn't notice before?

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: sandorski
FYI, just check the box(check tfinch2's first post) and everything will work fine. For some reason the box unchecked all of a sudden. Must have been Updated or something.

Does your browser automatically fill in forms for you? That's my WAG as to why that would happen, if another upgrade didn't cause it.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: ProviaFan

Originally posted by: sandorski
FYI, just check the box(check tfinch2's first post) and everything will work fine. For some reason the box unchecked all of a sudden. Must have been Updated or something.

Does your browser automatically fill in forms for you? That's my WAG as to why that would happen, if another upgrade didn't cause it.

I would have thought it was a Cookie issue or something like it on my end, but since it seemed to happen to many at the sametime I kinda nixed that idea.

 

[Sunner]

The search-by-user used to be by date, I never had to check that box before, and I can't seem to remember that box being checked by default before.

As for relevancy, I agree with Provia, relevant my ass.
The first thread I got when searching for my username was a 2 months old thread with very few replies, exactly what algorithm came to the conclusion that that specific thread was somehow relevant? :roll:

 

[sandorski]

Ok, it just did it to me again. :|

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Sunner
The search-by-user used to be by date, I never had to check that box before, and I can't seem to remember that box being checked by default before.

As for relevancy, I agree with Provia, relevant my ass.
The first thread I got when searching for my username was a 2 months old thread with very few replies, exactly what algorithm came to the conclusion that that specific thread was somehow relevant? :roll:

Character count of matches to what is in your name?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: Sunner
The search-by-user used to be by date, I never had to check that box before, and I can't seem to remember that box being checked by default before.

As for relevancy, I agree with Provia, relevant my ass.
The first thread I got when searching for my username was a 2 months old thread with very few replies, exactly what algorithm came to the conclusion that that specific thread was somehow relevant? :roll:

Character count of matches to what is in your name?

Nice theory, but I wasn't even quoted in that thread, so any thread with someone quoting me would rate higher, which either means:
a) You're wrong...or
b) Noone ever listens to me.

 

[Jason Clark]

The username search should order by date (if not i'll check ), searches based on keywords by default will not (as per every other search engine known to mankind).

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
The username search should order by date (if not i'll check ), searches based on keywords by default will not (as per every other search engine known to mankind).

It's mucked up. The box doesn't seem to stay checked, so now Username Searches require clicking the Option box for Order by Date.

 

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
The username search should order by date (if not i'll check ), searches based on keywords by default will not (as per every other search engine known to mankind).

It's mucked up. The box doesn't seem to stay checked, so now Username Searches require clicking the Option box for Order by Date.

 

[Sunner]

I've never used the relevance search before, so I was kinda surprised at what it deemed relevant.
Jason, what is relevance based on exactly? I even end up with different results doing the same search, the thing the results have in common is that the top result is always some old and relatively small thread.

Does the relevance search simply get confused trying to figure out what's relevant to a username or is there something else?

 

[Jason Clark]

The user search should not be using relevance as stated above (IF you are just searching by username), i will look at it when time permits.

IF you enter a keyword then relevance is used as it should.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: sandorski

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
The username search should order by date (if not i'll check ), searches based on keywords by default will not (as per every other search engine known to mankind).

It's mucked up. The box doesn't seem to stay checked, so now Username Searches require clicking the Option box for Order by Date.

Same here - now it seems to be something close to reversed order by date - older threads are showing up first. I searched for posts I made, and the first one was from 2002.

Once I made it to the pages that were from 2005, they seem to be in no particular order at all.

 

[Jason Clark]

All taken care of, when searhing by author only its date descending.

Later.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Jason Clark
All taken care of, when searhing by author only its date descending.

Later.

Excellent, thank you!

 

[sandorski]

yay, works