torrentthief Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 If i go to the forums and search for "windows 8" or "raspberry pi" or "playstation 4" i get this message: "One or all of your search keywords were below 3 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed, such as 'html', 'img', etc, please increase the length of these search keywords or choose different keywords." Please remove this limitation when used with 1 or more words that have 3 or more letters, it is real choir to use the forums as a result of this. EDIT: Btw i can still vote on my own topic here, i just voted it 5 stars to show you, you could do with removing this ability too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cybertimber2008 Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 That would be a limitation of Invision Power Board and MySQL really. Not much can be changed as far as I know. If you search raspberry pi you see the error, but but if you search"raspberry pi" and include the quotes, you can search it because it's not three characters that the system is looking for. Malechai, Steven P. and djdanster 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malechai Veteran Posted May 1, 2013 Veteran Share Posted May 1, 2013 That would be a limitation of Invision Power Board and MySQL really. Not much can be changed as far as I know. If you search you see the error, but but if you search and include the quotes, you can search it because it's not three characters that the system is looking for. pro tip! thanks for posting that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neufuse Veteran Posted May 1, 2013 Veteran Share Posted May 1, 2013 This site isn't running on MySQL... It's running on SQL Server last I heard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreadAbort Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Doesn't matter. Can you imagine the search results for 1 or 2 characters. It just isn't unique enough. The articles that match the word "it" for example. This is why "raspberry pi" is the way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted May 1, 2013 Developer Share Posted May 1, 2013 This site isn't running on MySQL... It's running on SQL Server last I heard It's running MySQL, always has been, we may be a MS site, but there's no MS tech on the backend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firey Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Using a single quote seems to work better for getting search results. For example: Windows '8' Raspberry Pi' Playstation '4' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phouchg Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 It's running MySQL, always has been, we may be a MS site, but there's no MS tech on the backend Hypocrisy! Blasphemy! <-- Proposing that the next version of Neowin runs on MS Access... somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srbeen Posted May 1, 2013 Share Posted May 1, 2013 Be good if they took short terms and whitelisted them to be indexed rather than ignored. No it or no or if, Im thinking this is a possibility with mySQL. Im pretty sure I can do 1 char searches. lots of results tho so lots of processing power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted May 1, 2013 Developer Share Posted May 1, 2013 We actually use Sphinx for search, MySQL isn't fast enough ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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