Forum request/suggestions....

[Garvin]

I'm rapidly becoming more and more reliant on this forum and its members for their wealth of experience and knowledge on this subject.

I am writing with a couple of simple questions and suggestions regarding the operations of this page that would aid new members as well as returning ones.

Search Function: Please... this would consolidate so much information. If we need to do a fund raiser to get the search function fixed, I'd love to help. A djembefola.com bake-sale perhaps. I'll make the brownies.

New Post Search: Everyy forum addicts best friend. I realize that this isn't as heavily visited as other more generalized drumming forums, but I'd love to be able to click on here in the morning and search all new posts rather than navigating in and out of the sub-forums. If this already exists somewhere and I'm just missing it, please let me know.

Either way, this forum is seriously one of the best places to come for real info on this subject. No drama, no BS, just good folks who know their s***.

[bubudi]

search function seems to be working now. try it out (top right). some relevant posts could be missing from your search results if google hasn't made a copy (cache) of them yet.

there is currently no function to search for latest messages, but you could use this google url:
http://www.google.com.au/search?&q=site%3Adjembefola.com&as_qdr=d3
bookmark it for now. i'm sure it will be implemented into the forum in time. again, some of the latest posts may be missing if google hasn't cached them yet.

[James]

Thanks for the feedback, I only recently noticed, that there is no seperate forum search. I will fix that asap.

I myself, have had some difficulty finding somethings in the forum recently. I thinking it must be a measure of some success really, because I never had trouble finding something before.

The main site search in the nav bar is working.

Thanks to Bubudi for pointing out that it was broken.

If possible, please let me know if you find something broken and I will fix it... It's easy for me to miss things.

Thanks
James

[djembefola.com admin]

There is now a shiney new search box up there for searching in the forum.

There's still a couple of problems with it, but I am working on them and it is quite tedious. There is definitely far more useful functionality though.

I will keep you updated.

When you are on the main board page http://djembefola.com/board

You will see 3 usefull links:
* View unanswered posts • View new posts • View active topics

These will provide you with all the new posts etc. These are taken from the time when you click on "Mark all forums read", which is on the right hand side.

Thanks for your feedback and patience.

In addition to this you can also subscribe to new posts via email or RSS using the links at the top of the forum.

James

[bubudi]

i'm not seeing it, james.
i saw the 'mark forums as read' and clicked on it, but the view new posts, etc is nowhere to be seen on the main forum page or any other forum page.

[michi]

In addition to this you can also subscribe to new posts via email or RSS using the links at the top of the forum.

I can't find an RSS link anywhere. Can you help?

Cheers,

Michi.

[James]

Hi Michi,

We had RSS, but nobody seemed to be using it, so I didn't add the mod the last time I upgraded the phpBB.

Would it be helpful to you? It would be hard to justify if you were the only one who needed it.

Does anybody else use RSS?

[michi]

I would use it mainly when I'm travelling, not regularly. So, if there is no interest from others, don't worry about it.

Cheers,

Michi.