lawp
i suggest that fixing the forum search functionality would be a good thing

Ha - I was just scrolling down this thread on my phone and exactly the same thing popped into my head, and the next post I looked at was yours. Every technical forum should have a grade-A search function. It's absolutely vital. This forum doesn't. It was awful in the old version and not much better in the new one. I know we can search the forum via Google and get great results but it's a shame the forum search isn't so good.

Search works very well for me, not sure what the issue is?
The forum software being used here is APG vNext Commercial and is on Version 4.3, see link at the bottom of the page.
Latest version is 4.5 as demo'd here: http://www.aspplayground.net/community/Forums.aspx
 
 
 

Yup a search for dead horse supplies 189 posts, works fine, I'm using Firefox 25 and Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 right now.

No thank god! Also searched for the term "arse" and this came up with 187 results with Android 4.3 and Google chrome.

And the only time I get double posts is when I'm on my phone. Win8phone

chuckebaby
this thread is a perfect example of how some of us are a little confused about who owns this forum.
this is cakewalks forum and they can do what ever they want with it.
the days of telling someone: "too bad" or "deal with it". have become a thing of the past in fear of hurting someone's feelings.
cakewalk has been generous enough to give us this forum and make it feel as though its ours.
with that comes a price. users thinking it really does belongs to them.
 
I've never been on a forum anywhere as free and open as this one.
we should not take that for granted, though we often do.

Well said, Charlie.

lawp
ok, for example, i searched for "solved" and get: 200 threads since "the beginning", filtered to 134 threads in the last 2 years; if i change it search to 'actual posts' it returns no results, when obviously it should be far more - this is across all forums. it's also so slow i wonder if anything is happening (same cause as multiple posts perhaps?) in ff23 on win7. in ff on android i get the first 200 but no date filter options... (same for "arse") ... and posting this reply gives me "An unexpected error occurred and logged. Please try again later."...
 
 

That same search filter returns 257 results for me.
 
Keep in mind we didn't create this forum software. I've noticed search can be a bit slow too when pulling up results initially, but it's actually searching millions of posts (well over a hundred thousand threads) dating back several years with a complex query. I think saying it's broken is a bit over the top. It's actually working quite well. Perhaps it could be a bit better, but we're in the business of making music software not forum software. 
 
CakeAlexS mentioned there are some updates to the ASP Playground software and we have some optimizations planned for this server in general, but I think it goes without saying that our focus is more geared towards improving SONAR at the moment.

jb101

chuckebaby
this thread is a perfect example of how some of us are a little confused about who owns this forum.
this is cakewalks forum and they can do what ever they want with it.
the days of telling someone: "too bad" or "deal with it". have become a thing of the past in fear of hurting someone's feelings.
cakewalk has been generous enough to give us this forum and make it feel as though its ours.
with that comes a price. users thinking it really does belongs to them.
 
I've never been on a forum anywhere as free and open as this one.
we should not take that for granted, though we often do.

Well said, Charlie.

I said that 2 pages ago. LOL 

John
Strange that somehow "its our affair" when everything written belongs to CW.  We use this forum we don't own it. 

Well said, John. ;-)

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]

Grem
And the only time I get double posts is when I'm on my phone. Win8phone

I have the same problem when posting from my phone. The mobile theme takes a while to refresh so I tend to hit the submit button a few times and end up with a double post. Do you know if that's what is happening to you as well?

When on my phone I use the mobile version of forum. I like it better.
 
It maybe Ryan. What I have noticed is that I will hit the reply button and nothing seems to happen, so I think I haven't touched it long enough for a touch to register on my screen, and when it does take, and starts to load I get a message (something like this) "that I can't post twice in such a short period of time."
 
And I also agree with you. CW is a music company. Work on that!
 
The forum sw is workable! I can definitely live with it!!

Ryan Munnis [Cakewalk]

Grem
And the only time I get double posts is when I'm on my phone. Win8phone

I have the same problem when posting from my phone. The mobile theme takes a while to refresh so I tend to hit the submit button a few times and end up with a double post. Do you know if that's what is happening to you as well?

This happens to me regularly. Doesn't the forum software have some kind of double-post safeguard enabled? 

John

jb101

chuckebaby
this thread is a perfect example of how some of us are a little confused about who owns this forum.
this is cakewalks forum and they can do what ever they want with it.
the days of telling someone: "too bad" or "deal with it". have become a thing of the past in fear of hurting someone's feelings.
cakewalk has been generous enough to give us this forum and make it feel as though its ours.
with that comes a price. users thinking it really does belongs to them.
 
I've never been on a forum anywhere as free and open as this one.
we should not take that for granted, though we often do.

Well said, Charlie.

I said that 2 pages ago. LOL 

it probably sounded better when you said it,lol
you and jb101 are good people. haven't been around as much but miss you guys.:-)

chuckebaby

John

jb101

chuckebaby
this thread is a perfect example of how some of us are a little confused about who owns this forum.
this is cakewalks forum and they can do what ever they want with it.
the days of telling someone: "too bad" or "deal with it". have become a thing of the past in fear of hurting someone's feelings.
cakewalk has been generous enough to give us this forum and make it feel as though its ours.
with that comes a price. users thinking it really does belongs to them.
 
I've never been on a forum anywhere as free and open as this one.
we should not take that for granted, though we often do.

Well said, Charlie.

I said that 2 pages ago. LOL 

it probably sounded better when you said it,lol
you and jb101 are good people. haven't been around as much but miss you guys.:-)

John usually says it better.
 
Good to hear from you, Charlie, hope all is well with you and yours. :-)

Just because some forumers including me dont change their titles after a pbroblem is solved may i suggest to have single button to press so it will mean its solved. My reason for not doing is its a long process.