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Karlon

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owners & administrators: the "Find Threads" title is not proper. you are not finding threads at all. it's your own threads! if you are going to keep that title, switch it to: "Finding Your Threads", because that's what it is. Please reconsider this issue & i thank you.
 

GaryA

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I remember this being brought up a long time ago...

My suggestion(s):

1) Disable 'Find threads' on the drop-down menu so that only entries within the menu are active. This would mean that clicking [directly] on 'Find threads' would simply open the menu.

2) Change 'Find threads' to produce an 'Advanced' page that searches only threads.

In the meanwhile @Karlon - please be patient with them - the software they are presently using has some very serious unfortunate limitations (the search feature is "weak" and is one of the worst of them) - and, may not even allow them to change it! However, I do not know because I have never set up a copy of it to 'tinker' with it to find out what it can and cannot do. I do not even know whether it is open-source or not. If it is open-source, pretty-much anything is doable - it is just a matter of what it will take based on the way the software is currently written. I have just never looked into it.

BTW - if you want to see a really good search capability/tool/utility (not totally perfect [yet?], but really good) - go check out the Bible Search utility on my website... :D
 

Oncefallen

Idiot in Chief
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Jan 15, 2011
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#3
owners & administrators: the "Find Threads" title is not proper. you are not finding threads at all. it's your own threads! if you are going to keep that title, switch it to: "Finding Your Threads", because that's what it is. Please reconsider this issue & i thank you.
I remember this being brought up a long time ago...

My suggestion(s):

1) Disable 'Find threads' on the drop-down menu so that only entries within the menu are active. This would mean that clicking [directly] on 'Find threads' would simply open the menu.

2) Change 'Find threads' to produce an 'Advanced' page that searches only threads.

In the meanwhile @Karlon - please be patient with them - the software they are presently using has some very serious unfortunate limitations (the search feature is "weak" and is one of the worst of them) - and, may not even allow them to change it! However, I do not know because I have never set up a copy of it to 'tinker' with it to find out what it can and cannot do. I do not even know whether it is open-source or not. If it is open-source, pretty-much anything is doable - it is just a matter of what it will take based on the way the software is currently written. I have just never looked into it.

BTW - if you want to see a really good search capability/tool/utility (not totally perfect [yet?], but really good) - go check out the Bible Search utility on my website... :D
My best guess is that the OP is using the "find" tab within his profile rather than the search function at the upper right corner of the page. I intended to reply to this when I approved the thread but got distracted.
 

Magenta

Senior Member
Jul 3, 2015
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#4
I thought I had responded also. Heh. The find threads is on the top of the page. The links across the top, second row:

What's new, Life-bits, Members, Find threads, Watched, Search forums, Mark forums read

The Find threads link does take you to any threads you have created, including blogs.
 

Karlon

Well-known member
Mar 8, 2023
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#5
how about this title: "Find All Threads", with the current options existing now. people normally think that when there's a list of options, (category's), at the top of the main page, that that's what's really important. so, all the more, that's why it seems it should be "Finding All Threads". or at least, when you click on "Finding Threads", it shouldn't be "your" threads at the start. thanks again Oncefallen.