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Is 'search first' still valid advice?

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#11
catfunk said:
I typed "Linode" and it suggested "Lindoe." That's...

Symptom of edge n-grams on a cold dictionary. I seeded it from provider names in the hosting directory but the fuzzy threshold is too aggressive. Will tighten the Levenshtein distance and rebuild.

sudo make me a sandwich
#12

200ms is fine for a forum but I just want to know if anyone else's search for "10G switch" is returning knitting patterns. The stemmer is too eager.

visit twice: install and decom
#13
Carl said:
Returning knitting patterns

Standard analyzer + porter stemmer will do that. "Switch" stems to "switch" but if the index has "switching" from a thread on VLAN trunking, the overlap with textile keywords is nonzero. Custom analyzer with a keyword marker for networking terms would help, but that's a lot of maintenance.

iBGP, eBGP, don't care, just peer
#14

I am try search "how to install docker" and result is very good now. Before I ask same thing and someone say search first but search not work. Now I think search first is OK advice.

4 #15
minhdock said:
Before I ask same thing and someone say search first but search not work

Same experience here. I stopped searching because it was faster to ask and absorb the sarcasm. The new setup actually found my own thread from six months ago when I tested it, which was embarrassing but useful.

#16

This.

#17

Has anyone tested whether the search respects the "infrastructure" subforum scope? I searched for "RAID" and got results from marketplace.

#18
marchmares said:
Got results from marketplace

Known. The subforum filter is a post-search facet, not a query constraint, because some threads move between subforums and I didn't want to break links. I'll add an explicit

forum:infrastructure
operator.

sudo make me a sandwich
#19

In Madrid we have a saying: "buscar para encontrar" -- search in order to find. But if the finding fails, the blame goes to the seeker, not the library. The old advice was library propaganda.

swimming upstream since 2019 🐟
#20

I'm going to be the one who asks: what was the single node running on before? A Raspberry Pi? 4GB heap suggests something small.

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