New features
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:43 pm
We released quite a few features this evening, the most significant being the new search engine.
You can find most of the useful information about this powerful feature by simply doing a search for something and carefully reading the information tab. In order to search, just type something into the text field below the menu and click on the arrow.
To sum it up:
- Search term has to contain at least 3 characters.
- You don't have to add wildcards, similar profiles are automatically found.
- Empty profiles or those which have been inactive for more than a year are not displayed (this applies to users as well as cities)
- You search for translated names only, which applies to city and country profiles.
- There is a totally independent search mode for the rankings to which none of the above restrictions apply.
The search engine is intended as a casual way to look up user/city/country profiles from time to time. It is not intended as a way to data mine our database and bitch about city or user profiles. We will ignore all such requests. We're also logging all search requests and have means to exclude individual users from this feature.
There have also been various minor updates. For example, you should now be able to change the language of the site without losing its state and the denomination field in the expert form should accept the ENTER key now and submit the form accordingly.
As always, questions, suggestions and bug reports are very welcome.
Nerzhul
You can find most of the useful information about this powerful feature by simply doing a search for something and carefully reading the information tab. In order to search, just type something into the text field below the menu and click on the arrow.
To sum it up:
- Search term has to contain at least 3 characters.
- You don't have to add wildcards, similar profiles are automatically found.
- Empty profiles or those which have been inactive for more than a year are not displayed (this applies to users as well as cities)
- You search for translated names only, which applies to city and country profiles.
- There is a totally independent search mode for the rankings to which none of the above restrictions apply.
The search engine is intended as a casual way to look up user/city/country profiles from time to time. It is not intended as a way to data mine our database and bitch about city or user profiles. We will ignore all such requests. We're also logging all search requests and have means to exclude individual users from this feature.
There have also been various minor updates. For example, you should now be able to change the language of the site without losing its state and the denomination field in the expert form should accept the ENTER key now and submit the form accordingly.
As always, questions, suggestions and bug reports are very welcome.
Nerzhul