Forum search broken/unusable?
Searching for more than one word doesn't return any results. Below is an obvious search screenshot, but I made sure to search for the title of a thread from yesterday, and same - no results. Is the Sphinx deployment broken?
Search also seems very low quality. I'm searching for "salad" and the first results seem completely irrelevant:
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Any news on this?
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Hi Lector,
I see what you mean! I'll look into this and let you know what we're able to find.
Karen Stark
cronometer.com
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Hi Lector,
We've been in touch with Vanilla Forums and they are investigating the issue. They are also upgrading the search function in the near future to prevent these issues going forward.
Karen Stark
cronometer.com
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Looks like it's working again now!
Karen Stark
cronometer.com
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Great, thanks for the quick fix! Vanilla Search has not been the best in my experience.
BTW, is this Vanilla deployment a bit behind the OSS one? I see some features in the current OSS instance that aren't here (e.g. pop-up formatting toolbar upon text selection).
Running an older version comes with security risks. If an upgrade is non-trivial, might be worth looking into Discourse, which has some critical features that Vanilla lacks, such as autosuggesting similar topics, which drastically cuts down on FAQs.
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Nevermind, looks like this is Vanilla Cloud. Maybe worth bugging them to implements the similar topics feature.
