Going through different forums, I sometimes find myself looking for VERY specific replies/posts containing one or more "key-words" but most of the times, I can't find what I'm exactly looking for, and when I do, a lot of time has passed just navigating pages and pages of results containing the "key-word".
While using the "Posted by Member: ________" certainly can be useful, I've personally found mixed results... even when looking for things I've said myself, most of the times end up in "No results found" page.
SO, I'd like to see a better Search Bar functionality, similar to Reddit's.
Here's a copy paste of what I mean:
While I'm 69% aware of the probable fact that GBATEMP runs under Xenforo's features and tools, it'd be nice to have a better search function if it's possible.
While using the "Posted by Member: ________" certainly can be useful, I've personally found mixed results... even when looking for things I've said myself, most of the times end up in "No results found" page.
SO, I'd like to see a better Search Bar functionality, similar to Reddit's.
Here's a copy paste of what I mean:
To limit your search to a specific set of criteria, you can use these special manual filtering words to do so.
Make sure there’s no space between the manual filter name (e.g. ‘author’) and the word you want to search for:
author:cats
author: cats
Example: If you want to search for things related to ‘search updates’ written by author u/reddit within a specific community, r/reddit, input the following in the search bar:
author:reddit subreddit:reddit search updates
ics site:imgur.com
When making a multi-word field search, wrap the query in double or single quotes. For example, title:“kitten gif”.
Note: By default for Post Search we require some but not necessarily all words in the query to match for a post to be considered a match for your search. These special search syntax terms will allow you to override this and require a certain set of criteria.
For comments, and people all words in the query must currently match, though this might change in the future.
Make sure there’s no space between the manual filter name (e.g. ‘author’) and the word you want to search for:
author:cats author: catsExample: If you want to search for things related to ‘search updates’ written by author u/reddit within a specific community, r/reddit, input the following in the search bar:
author:reddit subreddit:reddit search updates
- author The user who submitted the post.
For example, author:reddit - flair The text of the link flair on the post.
For example, flair:cats - self Filter by text post. Set to true to filter to only text posts, false otherwise.
For example, self:true - selftext The body of the post.
For example, selftext:cats - site The domain of the submitted URL.
For example, site:example.com - subreddit The submission's subreddit.
For example, subreddit:cats - title The submission title.
For example, title:cats - url The submission's URL (the website's address).
For example url:cats
ics site:imgur.comWhen making a multi-word field search, wrap the query in double or single quotes. For example, title:“kitten gif”.
Note: By default for Post Search we require some but not necessarily all words in the query to match for a post to be considered a match for your search. These special search syntax terms will allow you to override this and require a certain set of criteria.
For comments, and people all words in the query must currently match, though this might change in the future.
While I'm 69% aware of the probable fact that GBATEMP runs under Xenforo's features and tools, it'd be nice to have a better search function if it's possible.
