Please improve Forum search.

DaneeDeKruyff

How did I come to this, well, I vaguely remembered someone wrote a How-To article about Z-Wave so I searched for How-To.

Searching for how-to, how to or “how to” produces no results!

Searching for Z-wave produces loads of results, but not the one I was looking for so I tried Z-wave devices and again did not find the post.
Next I tried “Z-wave Devices” and now the post showed up:

Possible improvements I see here:

- Hits in topic titles should outweigh hits in text
- Don't ignore text in brackets
- The double quote shouldn't be necessary to move results to the top of the list

Peao

Ohh yes! I was about to create such a thread many times before  
 . I like your suggestions!
There sould also be a option to search for thread titles only, or you should prioritise this. This would also decrease the doubleposts in the forum  

RoelofRos

sticky topics with how-to's  in each category could be helpfull.

TedTolboom

Apparently Google is indexing Athom's forum better than it's own search engine 

DaneeDeKruyff

TedTolboom said:

Apparently Google is indexing Athom's forum better than it's own search engine 

Yeah, but that's true for almost every site on the internet

TedTolboom

Agree, but the gap should not be so big... 

It is time that with so many homey's out in the field, the forum goes to the next level...
better forum search, stickies, more sub-fora (e.g. Z-wave corner) moderation etc...

Unfortunately, it has been suggested multiple times, but it has not focus at @Athom ;

Emile

We use forum software we haven't written ourselves so it's really hard to improve. We can't optimize everything unfortunately! 

DaneeDeKruyff

Hmm that's to bad....

bvdbos

It's not that bad, as long as google works better. I like the vanoogle plugin: https://vanillaforums.org/addon/vanoogle-plugin like on http://forum.canofsleep.com/