Since moving over the site to this new software last May one of the biggest complaints I have heard about it is the Search Engine.
XenForo offers an official separate paid add on which is supposed to greatly improve the search features here, up until this week I haven't been able to install this search engine here as the required backend search service ElasticSearch was not compatible with our version of Unix we run here. However a new version has been released which is compatible with our OS, and this new search engine backend was installed last night on our server.
Here is a description of the new search from XenForo
"XenForo Enhanced Search is designed to give significantly better search performance and additional search options to your users. It is built on top of elasticsearch, which is in turn built on top of Lucene. This gives excellent performance, even with millions of pieces of content. Elasticsearch allows nearly infinite scalability and redundancy by silently allowing searches to be run across multiple servers. Additionally, you benefit from a very small stopword list and no minimum word length, allowing nearly any search to return meaningful results. Elasticsearch also provides support for returning results based on how relevant they are to your search. You can select relevancy ordering on the advanced search page."
I have just purchased and installed the XenForo add in. I was planning on turning it on tonight, but instead after install it turned itself on and currently reindexing the search. This means while its rebuilding search may not work or return incomplete results.
I will let you know when its done.
Thanks for allowing me to make SatelliteGuys better for you.
XenForo offers an official separate paid add on which is supposed to greatly improve the search features here, up until this week I haven't been able to install this search engine here as the required backend search service ElasticSearch was not compatible with our version of Unix we run here. However a new version has been released which is compatible with our OS, and this new search engine backend was installed last night on our server.
Here is a description of the new search from XenForo
"XenForo Enhanced Search is designed to give significantly better search performance and additional search options to your users. It is built on top of elasticsearch, which is in turn built on top of Lucene. This gives excellent performance, even with millions of pieces of content. Elasticsearch allows nearly infinite scalability and redundancy by silently allowing searches to be run across multiple servers. Additionally, you benefit from a very small stopword list and no minimum word length, allowing nearly any search to return meaningful results. Elasticsearch also provides support for returning results based on how relevant they are to your search. You can select relevancy ordering on the advanced search page."
I have just purchased and installed the XenForo add in. I was planning on turning it on tonight, but instead after install it turned itself on and currently reindexing the search. This means while its rebuilding search may not work or return incomplete results.
I will let you know when its done.
Thanks for allowing me to make SatelliteGuys better for you.
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