Opportunity of searching for wall posts

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Opportunity of searching for wall posts #2160

Open Guybrush88 opened 4 years ago

Guybrush88 commented 4 years ago

Currently, if you want to search for older posts on the wall, you need to browse all the pages until you find what you need, and this can be an extremely long thing to do. A possible solution for this would be to have the opportunity of searching for them, may it be according to the creation date or according to user-selected keywords which will eventually point to posts containing them.

jiru commented 4 years ago

This was also mentioned in UX test 3.

AndiPersti commented 4 years ago

Duplicate of #38.

trang commented 4 years ago

Related: #367

Yorwba commented 4 years ago

The suggestion in #38 was to use a general-purpose search engine and include site:tatoeba.org/*/wall. I think most users are probably not aware of those special filters (I didn't know you could use wildcards in the URL, myself). Maybe there should be a link to such a query on the wall page.

ckjpn commented 4 years ago

Here is something I put together a long time ago.

http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/google.html Google Custom Search: Tatoeba.org

This will give you an idea how something like what Yorwba suggests might look.

ckjpn commented 4 years ago

Here is a Google Custom Search set up to search the Wall.

http://tatoeba.ueuo.com/search_the_wall.html

It seems that you only get 3 results with one-word searches, but if you search more words, then you get more results.

ckjpn commented 4 years ago

Perhaps it's time for tatoeba.org to convert this to a traditional web-based forum.