Search seems odd in phpBB forum

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johnstonf
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Search seems odd in phpBB forum

Post by johnstonf »

Ok, I'm trying to search for stuff in this forum, but it seems wonky...
(I've used many other searches on forums)

Example, I just picked one i saw, and then tried:
workbench is missing

I get
Information:
The following words in your search query were ignored because they are too common words: missing workbench is.
You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 characters and must not contain more than 14 characters excluding wildcards.

Then I quote it and get same msg

Then I double quote it and get same msg

I try these all in the advanced search...
ALL still come back with same msg

I try...
+workbench +is +missing
Comes back same message

wat da ????

/f
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Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum

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It' using MySQL fulltext search, and it has a limiter when the word appears too often in the database. In short, the built-in search is pretty worthless. Give this a go instead: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Aforum. ... 1-1&ia=web
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Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum

Post by imm »

Yes. My impression is that it is disabled to reduced cpu consumption.

Best suggestion is Google. Use for example ....
+forum.freecad.org +"search" +"phpbb"
and you will get entries of people raising the same concern on the forum.
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Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum

Post by johnstonf »

Maybe a note to that effect when a search is being completed would be helpful... ??
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Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum

Post by chrisb »

When you use the FreeCAD theme, you have a separate search bar which invokes duckduckgo.
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