Site Suggestions & Updates

[Fenderman]

Not sure where to post this and apologies for not taking a screen shot. Earlier to day I had been logged in for a while and happily reading threads as usual. A message popped up to say that Clip The Apex was asking for verification of my access by entering my user name and password. I did so and it popped up again. this happened several times before I simply clicked on the close "x". The message box closed and has not returned.

It's just occured to me that I don't actually know where that came from. I put it down to a CTA cookie but I'm running spyware scan software anyway but nothing has shown up yet so maybe I'm getting paranoid.

Thought better check with CTA though in case it's unusual.

 

[Senna's_right_foot]

Fenderman previous page of this very thread

 

[Brogan]

Yup.!
Explained here Fenderman: http://cliptheapex.com/threads/site-suggestions-updates.3/page-18#post-191561

 

[Fenderman]

Phew, that's a relief! Thanks chaps

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Promoted search results.

Is there a plugin or a feature in the search which allows for promotion of search results by applying a search "weighting" against specific search terms??

If I search all thread titles for "Vettel" then the current-driver thread is the last result on page 2 of 3 results. If such a feature is available and should you wish to implement it then I would suggest circuits, driver profiles and race events threads as first candidates.

 

[Brogan]

Unfortunately, custom mapping is beyond my abilities.

There is however the "Relevance" option on the main search page.

I've never actually tried it to see what difference it makes.

 

[Merc]

Unfortunately, custom mapping is beyond my abilities.

There is however the "Relevance" option on the main search page.

I've never actually tried it to see what difference it makes.

Well, I'm glad to hear 'something' is "beyond" your abilities.

Dictators rarely have failures.

The worst part about this is that this is a good Forum. It's just a pity you're such a dick.

Anyway, don't bother barring me again, I'll only be back next week.

Bye.

Irishgreen

 

[Brogan]

Bye.

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Oh well. I was hoping there might be a standard interface in the xenforo search admin as in a lot of CMS. They often allow for aliases too for misspellings. So, for example, if analytics show that people often search for "Rosburg" you can tell the search to return results for "Rosberg".

"Relevance" looks like it returns results where ordering is based on weighting returned by the search algorithm where as the default is by timestamp. the results are better and... more relevant. I normally advise defaults for news or feedbased site where timeliness of content id key.

Thanks for the response.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I wonder what his beef was...

 

[F1Yorkshire]

No loss to the site anyway Meph

 

[Brogan]

Just another angry keyboard warrior who resorts to insults rather than debate.

I would have to agree with F1Yorkshire

 

[gethinceri]

BSE I reckon.

 

[Sh4dow85]

Bull Shit Ego?

 

[Brogan]

Please don't bypass the swear filter.

Just type the word and let the censor deal with it.

http://cliptheapex.com/threads/swearing.3746/

 

[Greenlantern101]

Is it possible to have an auto resize done to uploaded photos. I always have to resize photos from my digi camera as they are too big. Pain in the bum. Can't the website auto resize? or increase the image size allowance?

 

[Brogan]

The software doesn't support that function unfortunately.

Forum attachments are limited to 1MB, gallery attachments are 10MB.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Or for me, zero MB, if I am trying to upload from my computer...

 

[FB]

Have to say Mephistopheles, I'm not sure I want to see the sort of pictures you've been taking

 

[Mephistopheles]

Are you sure?