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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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 Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:14 pm Post subject: Please Improve the Search function |
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This site's search is pretty bad, for example these two options:
Search topic title and message text
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Search message text only
What about "Search only title."
Isn't this a field option in the software? |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:34 am Post subject: |
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Keep in mind that the forums been running since 2003. I'm sure that the settings could be changed but really it should probably have a complete change.
Most people will use google to search the site with
site:forums.eslcafe.com/korea/ searchword
Personally, I liked the old pre-2003 forum. |
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tardisrider
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| I remember that there was an old forum, but I don't remember what was different about it. Care to remind me, please? Just curious. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:53 am Post subject: |
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| The old Korea board was the same format as what they're still using in the Teacher Training forum( http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/dz1/) I can't imagine why anyone would think the old format was better than this one. |
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| tardisrider wrote: |
| I remember that there was an old forum, but I don't remember what was different about it. Care to remind me, please? Just curious. |
It was like this, except I think that this is actually only a frame. I think that the original had a side frame also. I'm not sure.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010208095537/http://eslcafe.com/korea/
Back then there was only one forum for Korea but it wasn't nearly as busy as it is today. The search function actually worked (and you could search by date or word). It was very easy to sign up. (From 2003 until 2009, I tried about dozen times to sign up but wasn't able to because most accounts weren't being approved.)
The new one isn't bad but it could be improved. Oddly enough, one of the good features of the current board when it first came out was that posters could post images within messages. That's long since been blocked though.
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Troglodyte
Joined: 06 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| The old Korea board was the same format as what they're still using in the Teacher Training forum( http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/dz1/) I can't imagine why anyone would think the old format was better than this one. |
I'm not saying that the old forum was was better. I don't think that it was bad either (except that there was only a single forum for Korea). It was definitely easier to join the forum, and the search function worked. I also liked that the posts and replies were expanded and actually threaded (not flat like the current forum), which can be useful if people modify their titles or if you want to see who actually replied on a thread. Although, the new one also has it's advantages. |
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Emark
Joined: 10 May 2007
Location: duh, Korea?
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| Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:06 am Post subject: |
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I too hate the search [un]function here.
When I want to search multi-word, I use the google search engine.
My latest search on google was "teaching with f2 visa".
I got all my questions answered with less scrolling and squinting and faster than here.
google it! |
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chickenpie
Joined: 24 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:55 am Post subject: |
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waygook.org
just found it, so much better than here.
Actually teachers grouping together to make decent lesson and share them!
Wow, what a difference to this place. |
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