[MTOS-dev] should there be an mtos-general? or (shudder) mtos-help?

[Bud Gibson]

Su, as usual, you have given quite the detailed view and noted the myriad
issues we are facing.

Personally, my suggestion was not intended to add to this muddle.  Rather,
I'd cut most of it.  Just have a few lists and a blog/wiki.  Make the lists
searchable by Google.  Stop.

I originally suggested the MT based forums idea last summer.  If the
consensus is to do that instead of a list, great.  Here's a few
recommendations to make it actually work:

1.  The MT forums should be Google searchable and all that we need is
probably a custom search engine to improve things there.

2.  Fix the login and authentication problems.

3.  Monitor the subscription experience in a tool like Google reader.

Bud

On Dec 13, 2007 10:09 AM, Chad Everett <sixapart.2007 at everitz.com> wrote:

>  I'm guessing here, but I'd assume that the search is based on
> mt-search.cgi or some slight variant, and if that's the case, it's only
> searching entry content (perhaps pages) - one of the problems _with_
> mt-search.cgi.
>
> For a full-fledged search offering author, date and topic search, then I
> think it needs to look elsewhere.  Unless Brad and company are busy coding
> up a replacement for mt-search.cgi, it's unlikely that the MT-based forums
> are going to offer that...
>
>
> Su wrote:
>
> * The MTCS forum has (so far?) only straight search, limited by:
>     a. "byrne reese": failed, so doesn't crawl author names
>     b. "ballpark": failed[1], so doesn't seem to be crawling comments(this
> can't be right)
>     c. Seems to be global only, so no filtering for the topic X
>     d. No limiting by date
>     e. other less important niggly things Invision allows
>
>
>
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