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Asrai.org Offline Weekend

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Greetings, my dear Asrai!

I know I haven't been very active in here for the past months, and a lot has happened in the time I've been away. So it is now high time for me to put things back in order here at the site, starting with the software that holds the entire community on its shoulders. This weekend, July 1st to July 3rd, Asrai.org will be shut down sporadically. I do not know how long these updates will take, I do not know what things must be done. I do know where I need to start though. The rest will become clear as I work on.

Things might look a bit horrible during the weekend, and some things might look different when Asrai.org comes back online. This is mainly due to the fact that I need to redesign the entire forum style. Again. I will try to make it as similar as possible, but as with all redesigns, I cannot really guarantee anything.

Any questions about the proceedings can be sent to my mail (naggie@asrai.org, admin@asrai.org) and I'll try to answer when I have some time over. Or you can just send me a PM on the site before Friday :)

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Can we get an upgraded Search function in this deal? Preferably one that includes conditionals such as "phrase here" to be exactly matched in quotes or * for multiple endings of a given word. Not saying it's a must have, but it would be nice to avoid those silly "your word is too common" errors I constantly get when searching.
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A PhpBB upgrade is wise :thumbsup:
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The forum will close around 18:00 my time (meaning GMT+1) on Friday July 1st.
Shandrakor wrote:Can we get an upgraded Search function in this deal? Preferably one that includes conditionals such as "phrase here" to be exactly matched in quotes or * for multiple endings of a given word. Not saying it's a must have, but it would be nice to avoid those silly "your word is too common" errors I constantly get when searching.
The search function is not a part where I am currently going to fix. However, Asrai.org has grown to a certain size where the search function starts to lose it's agility. I have set a limit for the common word threshold, and lowering that limit would make the database so enormously huge that the rest of the site would suffer for it.

One cannot try to search for "Glade riders" and hope to get every topic on them. They're used in far too many posts for the search engine to work with. One needs to search for specific terms corresponding to a certain situation. "Glade rider tactics" isn't specific enough, and getting around this issue is not an easy task.

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And we're back!

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Naggie wrote:And we're back!

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