Forum Search Suggestion

[Shiki 5,855]

I've always liked trying to help out around this forum, because it's a really nice forum, and I'd like to keep it nice and tidy, so I report things (that are worth reporting) rather frequently. Whenever I find a thread that sounds as if it's been posted before, though, I have a rather hard time searching for it.

 

For example, just recently there was a, "Other forums you frequent" kind of duplicate thread, and I reported it. I tried looking for the original thread, so I could provide a link in my report, but I couldn't find it at all. I used the keywords, "other" and "forum", because I knew those were in the title of the thread that i was searching for, but all that I found was miscellaneous threads that are on the forum, and irrelevant to my search. I tried ordering it by title, and it took forever to go through them all, because I could only check 20 posts per page at a time. I also still didn't find it (I may have skipped over it, though).

 

What I'm getting at is that it would be useful to users to have a different way of ordering in the search. Something along the lines of "Relevance" that only checks the key words in the titles of topics, kind of like how YouTube search works. It would be a lot easier than searching through hundreds of topics that are set in alphabetical order while you don't even know the exact title of the thread you're searching for. And if the thread you're looking for is a bit more dated, it's bound to be a little harder to find. I'm not sure how these kinds of things function, but it seems to me like it would be simply implemented, but I could be wrong?

[Bohtty 1,775]

Yah the search feature is 100% broken. I've tried searches for key words where I am 100% sure that I was the only one to use them in my tags, but it didn't even show up by the 5th page.