wow...that's interesting...I did a search on "articulation" (hey, it was the first word I thought of) and it was pretty funny what the first match was...I won't say it here...it'll be funny if you do it yourself. Search the user comments...

lol, that's great! long article though, sugest "finding on page" though, or you'l never find it...

i have a suggestion for the search engine.

if you search the archives it should show what calculator the file is for, just a thought...

I was thinking the same thing.

MWM

I noticed that you search is sorted on score... Is this the sum of the points it got? if yes that's just plain stupid and destroys the rate idea... If 5 users rate a file with a 5 it will be better than a file rated two times with a 10??? It should be sorted in a mix on average rating and number of ratings!

On a second thaugh... scrap that... news article have a score too... d'oh... so... what's the score thing about and how do you sort it?

i think the score is how relevent it is to what you searched for

yes that's right...I think it's the number of times the words showed up or something scaled like that...

That's correct. To quote the article, "this search engine is based on the tsearch2 package from postgresql, which provides full text indexing with relevance ranking." If you want to know more about how it decides relevance, you could do some googling for tsearch2.

great job but i was wondering if it would work if when you search for a comment that when you click it it goes to that comment.

is that even possible?
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just finished my web site (good stuff)

That really would be useful. It is very hard to find a comment right now. Since the comments are split up onto different pages, even Ctrl+F foesn't work.

i bet if you went into your preferences and made it put the maximum number of posts per page, then it would be easier to use Ctrl+F, but then you'd have a really really long page to load

Which is a problem with my 5 bytes an hour computer ;) It's funny, because I can download at 300+ kb/sec, but to display a webpage, it takes forever because my graphics card can't handle it...

I don't know where else to ask this:
How long does it take to decide if submitted news is accepted? Do you get a message if it's rejected? How do I know it's not just lost?

If you are not recieving a response from any of the contact e-mail addresses on the page at the link above you need to e-mail postmaster@ticalc.org

Please make sure that you are in fact using the e-mail adress for the correct purpose. For example if you send an e-mail to tutorials@ticalc.org asking for help trying to link your computer to your calculator you will most likely not get a response since that is not what that e-mail address is for.

Well, duh. I guess I should try resending it, even though it's obnoxious for the person who gets two copies. If I still don't get a reply, I'll try postmaster@ticalc.org.

It turns out that the news editor does not respond to news suggestion emails.

Hey! I just came up with a (maybe useless xD) idea!
What about a ranking of "top searches"?. What's most of people searching for?....
May be nice....

Sounds promising... B^)

That wouldn't work too well, because most searches come up with some unrelated stuff. Also, if someone searched with the word "need," as in "You NEED THIS PROGRAM!!!!" then all the files in the /83plus/basic/math directory would get a good rating...I think that any programmer that goes out of his way to say that his program is great is definitly aware of the fact that it su)(...

But may be useful information for developers.
Let's say that this mechanism shows up that the most searched word is "rpg", or more specific; "TI82 rpg".
I think that any game developers who access this information, may came up with a RPG game for the TI82.