Searching / navigating this forum

[johnny366]

First, let me say this forum is an amazing wealth of advice. I've just started using Mellel and the peer support here is like no other.

The trouble is, I can't really find anything without trawling the titles page by page. I haven't managed a successful search yet, I'm always told the words are too common (important things like numbering auto-titles don't yield any results). Is this a temporary glitch?

This might be OK is the forum had some structure, which I know phpBB can handle. Are there any plans to introduce some subcategories? This would really help!

Thanks for an amazing product guys.

[johnny366]

Anyone have any tips, or want to second my post? I have read several frustrated comments about being unable to use 'common' words (like reference, table, cross, title) in the Search. Surely this can be fixed?

[ozean]

Seconding motion here – searching this forum is really difficult. Not that I would know how to fix it…

[rpcameron]

I was going to write a response about there not being much of a problem with the forum's searching capabilities, until I realized I don't use it very much, so I tried to enter a few sample searches (both general, as well as some using modifiers and wildcards). I was horribly disappointed to find problems with both types of searches.

I don't know if this is a problem addressed with newer versions of phpBB, but it does seem a bit unacceptable.