Search by Author in Feature Requests

ID:230883
 
Jan 31 2012, 12:26 pm
Applies to:Website
Status: Open
Issue hasn't been assigned a status value.
Forum searches only seem to return results based on topics/content, and not by author. Even including custom formatting that used to work (author: x) doesn't seem to do a poster search.

Same applies to hub searches. Searching a developer's name will not return any projects by them.
#1 Feb 4 2012, 8:31 am
Hmm my imagination or not, but i think it works now? i

author:falacy

http://www.byond.com/ forum/?command=top_search&text=author%3Afalacy
#2 Feb 4 2012, 12:38 pm
Indeed. I would still prefer such criteria be included in a default search, especially on hubs.
#3 Feb 12 2012, 5:42 pm
It also looks like searches don't check against text in a post's alternate summary.
#4 Feb 12 2012, 5:57 pm
Just FYI, we're updating the search system to be more logical. We'll just have a single search bar and it'll search a wide scope by default, with an "advanced" option to narrow various things down. We'll take care of these reported bugs & inconsistencies.
#5 Feb 14 2012, 11:48 am
In response to Tom (#4)
Tom wrote:
Just FYI, we're updating the search system to be more logical. We'll just have a single search bar and it'll search a wide scope by default, with an "advanced" option to narrow various things down. We'll take care of these reported bugs & inconsistencies.

This would be something nice to have. I support.