I don't know all of the technical stuff, but have some responses:
@jb681131 said:
There are many things that bugs me regarding the Searches on Comic Vine.
The main seach (on the top on the website)
Suggestions and Results not the same ?
Once you type in something, suggestions appear. That is great.
If you type in "Enter" the seach is summited and a new page appears with different things than the suggestions.
Why ?
Can you elaborate on this? What I've seen is you type in "Batman," you get a list of suggestions in a drop down menu off of the search bar. If you hit "enter," you get the same suggestions that were in the drop down menu on a whole new page. Are you getting something different from that?
@jb681131 said:
The main seach (on the top on the website)
Search results badly organised
If I type in "Batman" for exemple, neither nor Batman (character) or Batman (current comics serie) come on top, but an Italian book from 66
The list should be ordered by most visited wiki, then by creation date, then by alphabetical order.
To promote newly added wiki, there could be a search order select box to choose between Newly added wiki first and Most poppular wiki first.
I don't want you to think I missed this part, but I don't have an answer here. However, it is possible (it seems unlikely, but it's possible) that the Italian Bat-book from '66 is the most visited wiki for "Batman."
@jb681131 said:
No possibility to search forum topics
In the filtering checkboxes on the right, there is no possible way to search among the forums ?
Why is that ?
Because there is a separate search bar for the forums, which you mention next.
@jb681131 said:
Forum seach (on top of the forums list)
Anything I type in gives me 0 results. Try with "Batman" for exemple. There ought to be a Forum suggestion or a Topic suggestion !
Why is that ?
Are you scrolling down? I just tried it, and there were a bunch of empty form boxes at the top of the page. However, scrolling down, I found 988,759 results over 65,918 pages.
That said, I never use CV's forum search bar. I use Google. You can narrow your Google search to Comic Vine only by typing in your subject, then "site:" then the site name. For example: Batman site:comicvine.gamespot.com/forums. That will limit the search to the CV forums for Batman. You want to be more specific in your search terms though, because just the number of times someone says "Because it's Batman" will make your search unwieldy.
@jb681131 said:
Need of a search bar inside a user's "Forums" page
I often need to look at what I answered on an old post, but have a hard time finding it.
Thank you to enhence those features.
A Forum user.
Again, narrowing the search on Google is the easiest way. Every user has a "Forums" tab on their profile, if they've ever responded to a forums post. You can sift through that manually, but if they're busy leaving two and three-word answers to umpteen threads a day, good luck with that. You can narrow your Google search to that user's Forums tab this way (I'll use mine for the example):
Batman site:comicvine.gamespot.com/profile/ficopedia/forums
Now honestly, there should be a bunch of hits in the Fan-Fic forum there, but Google only came up with three posts. Maybe that has something to do with most of my forum posts are also blogs? I don't know.
I realize these aren't addressing your requests exactly, but hopefully they'll take the frustration down a bit in the meantime.
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