I think I speak for many when I claim that this forum's default search function sucks pretty bad.
@tetov would you be interested in joining me in installing and setting up https://github.com/bauerjj/SphinxSearch ? Worst case we just put a DuckDuckGo search widget in the theme.
@Moult said:
I think I speak for many when I claim that this forum's default search function sucks pretty bad.
@tetov would you be interested in joining me in installing and setting up https://github.com/bauerjj/SphinxSearch ? Worst case we just put a DuckDuckGo search widget in the theme.
Sure, or CirrusSearch since the MediaWiki extension for Sphinx is no longer maintained? Let me know what time works for you.
@tetov I'm referring to the forum, not the wiki. The forum runs vanilla ;)
@Moult Sorry, don't know why I assumed wiki! Sounds good then!
Could we change the email settings to include the posts in notifications? It seems like it’s possible reading the docs.
@Moult about emails - since most people di> @Moult said:
I think I speak for many when I claim that this forum's default search function sucks pretty bad.
I wish we had a discussion about Vanilla initially. I know it's highly subjective, but discourse, seems much more capable, like search. Probably, too late now, but if there feels like there is a need to change to another system, would be good to have a discussion about it, with the most frequent users (of which I admit I am not a part of)
I'm a little swamped right now to handle a forum migration, and I don't really have any issues with Vanilla apart from the search personally. If someone else wants to handle this (@tetov ?) happy to migrate so long as there isn't any downtime.
From memory Discourse had some pretty picky behaviour about things like wanting to squat only on port 80 which is fine if you have a little cloud instance or do nothing other than run a forum, but is kinda unacceptable when you have a full dedicated doing quite a few things running a few webservers simultaneously. Shame on you, Discourse! More reading: https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-discourse-change-docker-port-80/31114/9
I could migrate the forum. Would need some time to test it out on a dummy Vanilla install first.
While I agree that hogging port 80 is bad, wouldn’t it be enough to reverse proxy community.osarch.org to Discourse docker container? @Moult
@tetov I did try that, but something stopped me which I can't remember. Always happy to try again.
Can we do something about search first? If we migrate or not we will need a good way to search old posts.
@Moult and I went over the web infrastructure today. I now have access to server and admin roles on Wiki, forum, and site.
We (mostly @Moult) also added SphinxSearch as a plugin to the forum.
You may notice some markup present in the post excerpts shown on the results page, @Moult's theory is that it's related to some changes to the post editor that happened a bit ago but only applies to older posts.
There's a new widget in the sidebar next to discussions showing related threads, and when creating new threads there's suggestions of already existing ones.
Please let us know if you find any bugs or have thoughts about the search functionality.
I have enabled the plugin [Profile Extender]() which adds some optional fields to the user profile pages on the forum.
The mainstream social media (and GitHub) fields automatically converts username to URL (e.g. tetov => https://github.com/tetov).
See my profile for an example.
Awesome! I've updated my profile too!
@tetov @Moult we have these tags but I can't see anywhere a directory of them to do some tidying up. Any ideas?
@duncan said:
@tetov @Moult we have these tags but I can't see anywhere a directory of them to do some tidying up. Any ideas?
What tags? :)
@tetov these ones we can add to the first post of each discussion:
They're generated for those with access just by typing, but I can't see a list of all available tags. It has some autocomplete but that's not an ideal solution.
Click show popular tags. :)
@tetov (please tag me so I see posts) I want to see all tags, not just the most popular ones. I also want to be able to clikc on a tag and see a list of pages, just like I do if I click a tag at the bottom of an existing post.
@duncan: As an administrator on the forum you have access to Tagging under settings where you can see all tags, rename and remove them as well as seeing how often they have been used.
We could also add the plugin All tags which adds a widget showing all created tags.
@tetov right, I hadn't thought to check those settings. They're good for doing a clear up.
I feel like all users should be able to navigate from a tag list like that, I think that's what the All Tags widget does? If that's what the widget does and the it might be worth a try. I think it's just a no-brainer that a casual visitor should be able to browse all articles tagged "freecad" or whatever. I 'd love to see that working in the forum.
@duncan I've added the plugin. It is integrated into the "Discussion filters" just below the "New discussion" button. I would prefer to replace the popular tag widget with the all plugins output, I'll look into adding a panel widget to the alltags plugin..
Perhaps consolidate down to 1 tag?
Go for it :) The former is preferred.
perhaps for an admin user to do.
@theoryshaw done :)
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