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I'm agreed with Gerolf. I hope I and other moderators will be able to sort all posts in needed categories.
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I know. You do a good job with this. Maybe I can help you in the future, now that I'm breeding dinosaurs :-)
What's desperately missing in the forum, IMHO, is a simple search box in the entry page. When I'm searching for something on other forums, I just try simple search with some keywords.
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Volker, search box is on all pages at the header. Or I didn't understand you clearly :)
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Yes, but that search the whole DevNet, not only the forum. If I want to do a search only in the forum, I must go to the advanced search. That wording, BTW, only does make sense if you have a simple search :-)
I often remember that there was a forum discussion and I know what I would type in that search box to find it...
But there are some improvements in the pipeline, maybe this one too. Let's wait for Santa :)
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You can choose wiki or forum tab at search results if you want results only from forum or only from wiki.
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Too much I have to choose and click on - we are lazy, aren't we? :-)
We have a simple search in the wiki to seach the wiki only.
To be orthogonal it would be good to have a simple search in the forum to search the forum only. At best in the sidebar on the right. Make similar functions look and feel similar.
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[quote author="tamhanna" date="1291445071"]Hi blex,
for me, it is a "generation" issue. I never liked the tags, having grown up on Windows 3.1 using folders...[/quote]Sorry for off-topic, we are nearly from the same generation and I also prefer folders. But the world is changed and the information flow is so huge now that it is almost impossible to work only in hierarchical environment (folders and sub-folders). We should adopt to it. Google is not hierarchical :)
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[quote author="blex" date="1291437528"]Sometimes it is not impotent where is the information located: in the Wiki or in the Forum. The current implementation of search looks fine for me.[/quote]
Then we could also remove the wiki only search, that can be superseeded by the global search too.