Subsonic Forum

Not sure where to post this request about the website. Mods, please move if you know of a better place.

I cannot search these forums for terms like "Android" and/or "Video" because the forums reject them as 'common words'

The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: video android.

Can you please allow us to search for words like 'Android', since many Subsonic users will be searching for solutions to their Subsonic+Android problems?

search.php?keywords=android+video&fid%5B0%5D=2

stefanlasiewski wrote:I cannot search these forums for terms like "Android" and/or "Video" because the forums reject them as 'common words'

Tell us about it!!!
I mean I use the word "Android" every 5 minutes
I am not sure if the admins can tweek the forum search
Thankfully SS is not based on phpbb otherwise our search indexes would be very lacking.

Admins: could we try something such as what is listed here: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... &t=1344605

As our forum grows larger and more content-full, the ability to search effectively becomes increasingly important.

This code essentially lets users search the site by doing a search similar to "site:forum.subsonic.org video android" in google.

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&output=se ... 66&bih=621

ytechie wrote:This code essentially lets users search the site by doing a search similar to "site:forum.subsonic.org video android" in google.

There's a potential here to make some money by using Google Search with your website. See http://www.google.com/webmasters/provider/overview.html

I just ran into this with another forum I host.... I solved it by turning on the mysql search backend. It's much faster and takes up less disk space. Admins : I recommend it. Make sure you delete the old php-based search index to save on db space.

-m

Hello! Thanks to all for this suggestion...I have implemented fulltext-mysql backend and re-indexed. Please test to see if search returns improved results. I'll leave the old index/backend intact until I hear the new one is an improvement. Cheers!