Who likes the new LF layout? Take the poll

[oz]

My main complaint was having difficulty differentiating between the colors used for read and not read. Either that has been fixed or I have gotten used to it, as I no longer have that problem.

The link at the top was changed from New Posts to Todays Posts. They work differently in that the Todays Posts search shows all posts made in the last 24 hours with those posts that you haven't read being in bold text and the posts you have read in regular text.

[drl]

Hi.

Search is incredibly difficult to do.

OK results are relatively easy but it is an order of magnitude harder to get good results and an order of magnitude harder than that to get great ones. The best way is to use something like Google Mini which is an appliance that spiders your site using Google's algorithm but it's a major financial investment for the appliance and then you have to plug it in. Or, you can have a programmer working solely on your search but that can be as expensive as Google Mini.

Most companies just use their chosen software's built in search and hope

I haven't used Google Mini, but forums.debian.net also suffers from a poor forum-internal search method. Someone there suggested a Google search specifying the site. I used something similar:

Ubuntu 11.04 freezes during bootup on Laptop site:www.linuxforums.org

and got 5 hits in 0.23 seconds ... cheers, drl