The New Forum Software!

[Thufir]

Hm, anyone have any suggestions on how to search better under the new software? Please?
Also, can it be that the polls have been removed? I can't find mine -- but then again, I think the search function isn't working as it should. Any help or suggestions appreciated, thanks!

I'd say searching has taken a step backward under the new forum software. It's really *bad* that all the Posts for a given thread that fit the search show up in your results - IMO, this cripples the search functionality for this forum. At the most, this should exist as an option, that is turned off by default.

Also, it would be very nice to have the search options be saveable (I've seen this in other forums). How many people actually use the default of searching Messages <= 1 week old?! Also, maybe it's just me, but I usually search on subject only, and if we can't get saveable options, it'd be nice (from my point of view) to have that made default.

I've also found that it no longer defaults to the DOM2 forum when I go into search (although I know it did a few days ago). I'm not sure if there's been a server side change that's made this happen, or if I've changed my behavior in some subtle way.

Finally, would it be possible to make a few Dom2 sub-forums? The bug thread needs this badly, and there are a couple of other stickies that deserve to be a subforums, as well (namely AARs and Modding).

If anyone is looking for an example, my second favorite game shop (after Illwinter/Shrapnel, of course ), Paradox, has done an outstanding job on their forum setup, check out:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...splay.php?f=79

Also, Esben is dead on in his comments about setting fonts - I would appreciate it if the fix he suggests is implemented.

Hope this didn't come off as a rant - I'm really finding this forum very useful all in all, but I am frustrated by the current state of search functionality.

- Thufir