Forum notifications and search

Edit: OK it looks like there is a forum search, but it would still be helpful to separate from the game search.

Where do you see this mystical forum search?

I think he means that when you use the Search function it gives forum posts mixed in with games and other pages in the search results.

I find that the Search function is rather useless the way it is right now. The results don't seem to be in a relevant order and I can't search up phrases. For example I tried to search "Forum notifications" like in the title of this thread. I couldn't find this thread anywhere, and by the 4th or 5th page of the results it was spitting out random people's profile pages just because the words "Forum" and "Notification" are in the menu at the top. Putting the phrase in quotation marks gives back 0 results. So like crafty says if one were searching to see if this post was made before, they wouldn't get much help.

Hopefully the Search function will get fixed up eventually but I guess it's also not too high a priority.

Yep, that's what I meant.

A forum search function through an embedded Google search box is easy to do, and wouldn't cost a single cycle.

I'd like a better forum in general.

Or a separate notification box saying 'so and so replied to your comment on such and such thread' especially if you created the thread.

It's one of the main reasons I tend to forget about the forum, I'll post a response and then a week later "oh yeah! I forgot about that, lets see what's going on" and then have to fish through all the posts to see where it went etc...

In the meanwhile, try using Google's "site:" tag to search just the forums.

This will probably get parsed to a link, but I'll try it anyhow:

"site:http://drawception.com/forums/ straight line" in a Google search box should narrow things down to (in this case) a search for threads that use "straight" and "line" in the same thread.