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
Search seems odd in phpBB forum
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Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum
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
Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum
Yes. My impression is that it is disabled to reduced cpu consumption.
Best suggestion is Google. Use for example ....
Best suggestion is Google. Use for example ....
and you will get entries of people raising the same concern on the forum.+forum.freecad.org +"search" +"phpbb"
Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum
Maybe a note to that effect when a search is being completed would be helpful... ??
Re: Search seems odd in phpBB forum
When you use the FreeCAD theme, you have a separate search bar which invokes duckduckgo.
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