The "Vanity Search"

starbelgrade

Where's it gone?

With the advanced search on the new skin, it appears that you can no longer search for posters who have quoted you.

It was a very handy function that seems to have gone A.W.O.L.

I've asked about this on the Sys forum and it's been asked in other threads in Feedback, but so far, no answer as far as I can find anyhow.

Ta!

stovelid

Micky Dolenz

You could search for posters who quoted you?

Learn something new every day.

stovelid

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

You could search for posters who quoted you?

Learn something new every day.

If you searched for your own user name in the "exact phrase" field, it would return posts that quoted your user name.

Was handy if you didn't (don't) subscribe to threads and you'd forgotten who you were drunkenly slinging mud against the night before.

Micky Dolenz

stovelid wrote: »

Was handy if you didn't (don't) subscribe to threads and you'd forgotten who you were drunkenly slinging mud against the night before.

Sometimes it's better not to know

starbelgrade

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

You could search for posters who quoted you?

Learn something new every day.

You're the second Mod who's said that to me.. do they not tell ye anything?!

I know there was a specific URL that you can enter that brings up these things, but I can't remember it now. Is that what you're referring to?

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Deleted User wrote: »

I know there was a specific URL that you can enter that brings up these things, but I can't remember it now. Is that what you're referring to?

That doesn't work any more.

phasers

I used to search my username every couple of days but nothing ever came up

My name is URL

Google is good for aiding in the self-congratulation/flagellation of oneself... not ideal but it does the job.

https://www.google.ie/search?q=%22Originally+Posted+by+Micky+Dolenz%22+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=site:boards.ie+%22Originally+Posted+by+starbelgrade%22&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&hs=leh&tbo=1&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ei=y9wJUIP1LIKDhQeUp9SDCg&ved=0CCoQpwUoAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=58f37d53178f4a70&biw=1440&bih=756

...On the other hand it doesn't work well at all.

Boards.ie: Paddy

Vanity searches are back and better than ever (in theory)

If you go to your user profile page, click on "Statistics" and you'll see a new link for "Find posts that quote {username}", this will link you a search result with all posts that quote you.

This should be much quicker than doing a full text search for quote username={username} as the work of parsing out usernames from quotes is now done when indexing.

Morag

Is that only on the new skin?

CodyJarrett

Boards.ie: Paddy wrote: »

If you go to your user profile page, click on "Statistics" and you'll see a new link for "Find posts that quote {username}", this will link you a search result with all posts that quote you.

Excellent, hadn't noticed that.

starbelgrade

Sharrow wrote: »

Is that only on the new skin?

It appears so.

TouchingVirus

Looks like they weren't lying when they said there'd be no new features added to the old skins

Boards.ie: Paddy

It's on all skins now.

I suppose I can't really justify calling a link a feature

El Guapo!

Any plans on adding this to boards touch?
I find I'm using the touch site more and more lately and I'd imagine a lot of users are doing the same?
It'd be nice to have some more features crossover to the touch site.

Boards.ie: Paddy

Dean09 wrote: »

Any plans on adding this to boards touch?
I find I'm using the touch site more and more lately and I'd imagine a lot of users are doing the same?
It'd be nice to have some more features crossover to the touch site.

Possibly. Touch is supposed to be a stripped back version of the site though so we have to consider very carefully what features we add so we don't clutter up the UI too much.

biko

Boards.ie: Paddy wrote: »

If you go to your user profile page, click on "Statistics" and you'll see a new link for "Find posts that quote {username}", this will link you a search result with all posts that quote you.

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