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I try to make search before post new thread. But search here not find my old thread from June about make a server up with ARM. Google find in 2 seconds with site:example.com. Forum search say "no results". Regards.
This is insane value for frustration! The ARM thread you mean is the one on Ampere Altra, right? I remember because I posted benchmarks there! The search here really does run circles around nothing!
Per my earlier writeup above in my analysis of forum UX patterns (see my 2024 meta-thread on information retrieval in low-traffic communities, section 3.2, "The Google Paradox"), the fundamental issue is threefold:
1. Index latency
- The forum search index appears to update on a weekly batch cycle rather than real-time
- Contrast with Google's continuous crawl
2. Query parsing
- No stemming ("server" vs "servers" fails)
- No synonym expansion ("hosting" vs "VPS")
3. Result ranking
- Pure chronological rather than relevance-weighted
- As I mentioned above, this penalizes high-value older posts
I have prepared a table of contents for a proposed rebuild using Elasticsearch. Who should I contact?
Anyway I tried something at 3am
$ grep -r "arm ampere" /var/forum/posts/ | headTook 800ms. Idk why I do this. The search box is just a skin over... nothing?
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SWEdish patience RUNNING out. I tried to fika my way through this but "hösting" search gives 404 on my own threads. Umlauts broken too. "fika" as verb = mandatory break, which this search needs.
🚫 = mas tipo google works so we good? Anyway vale I guess
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Same. I just use site:example.com now
Weekly batch cycle? Where did you get that number