Searching the forums

IceX, is there anything that can be done to make the search actually... useful?

It won't let you search on character names (at least the ones I tried), saying they're too common -- even if you restrict the search to titles only, display threads only. And while I can believe that "Storm" and "Wolverine" are common, that's kind of the nature of the beast here.

I know it may be a board software limitation, but could you look into it?

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  • IceIX
    IceIX ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 4,328 Site Admin
    Hmm, I'll set the word commonality to 0% so that doesn't happen in the future, but unfortunately that doesn't reset the already common words. I'll have to have the server admin reset the search index file.
  • This is still an issue. Lots of "common" words we can't search for.
  • Use the wildcard function. So, search for "wolver*" instead of "Wolverine".
  • Thanks for the tip!