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TonyPorter Regular user 180 Posts |
I know there have been many posts about the Café search engine, but dagnammit I miss quick search....there, I said it.
Quick search was glorious, I loved quick search. I used to start each day with a spring in my step just because I knew that quick search was there...whenever I needed it. Now I feel somehow empty inside. At times I'd catch myself just gazing out the window, starry eyed...just thinking about how convenient and magnificent quick search was. Oh I've tried the google 'search the magic Café' thing, believe me I've tried, but it just left me feeling cheap and abused. So dear Magic Café people, when the round table next convenes I beseech you, for the love of everything that's right in the world...bring back quick search. :) |
Lucky New user 2 Posts |
I just joined (I read the "Special Message for Lurkers" and figured why not? ) I don't know what Quick Search was, but I'm finding it difficult to search these forums. There seems to be no way to search ALL forums. If I'm looking for something, I have to specify which forum I'm searching in (from the drop down menu) and there's what.... 30 of them? Search, the way it currently works, is not a helpful feature at the moment. As a new member, if I knew what forum to search in, I probably wouldn't need to use search in the first place
I'd love to be able to search all forums at once for whatever words I'm looking for. |
Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
Lucky, yes at first the Café can be daunting but the forums are divided down logically. If you were looking for something involving cards, the best forum to search would be the workers. If you were looking for something using gimmicked cards, you would use the gaffed and funky forum. Coin information is usually in the nothing up my sleeve while gimmicked coin effects are discussed in the trick coin trickery forum. Mentalism is found in the penny for your thoughts area. If you work with animals, you would try Polly want a cracker. If you wanted to find out something about a technical issue with the Café, such as this topic regarding searching, you would enter the key word "search" and select the Magic Café Tech forum. In this case, you would get 670 results involving the search feature and the current problems that have been encountered. Sometimes it's not quite a clear as that but for the most part, a quick scan through the forum titles would point you in the right direction.
Here's link to a topic discussing the search feature and the reasons searching all forums is currently restricted. We are working a a solution to the problem but it takes time. http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......forum=50
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Lucky New user 2 Posts |
Thank you Dave. Unfortunately, because I'd kind of given up on the search feature, it didn't occur to me to use it to look for similar threads in THIS very forum -which would have been easy to figure out! My bad. I did see a few other topics on this after I posted. Thank you for the link above. In it is a link to a post in the Announcements forum (explaining the reasons for the limitations) which is a forum I would not have thought to search.
With regard to the different forums being topic/area specific, I looked through the various forum descriptions before posting above, and they are very well described, but there are searches that can span multiple forums. For example, I came here looking for information on cases and tables (who likes what, who uses what, how to make this or that...) and that can span several forums. The workshop has information on making your own, but reviews, pictures, and opinions of various products can be found in most forums. Also, while the forum descriptions are great when you're looking at the home page, they're not as easy to recall when looking at a long list of forums in the pull down menu! I've found I have to keep both the home and search pages open, side by side, to effectively do a forum by forum search. Anyway, thank you for the quick reply and suggestions, and the link (that led to the link!) explaining it all. I appreciate the work that goes into running this forum and will wait with others for the new search engine whenever it's finished. In the meantime, I'll use an alternative off site search for now. Thanks again! |
Lucky New user 2 Posts |
FYI (for any future readers) the announcement and explanation of why the search feature is limited is here: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......forum=38
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Ed_Millis Inner circle Yuma, AZ 2292 Posts |
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