Recent content by PaulStoffregen

Yes, I definitely intend to work on this. But realistically, it'll be a little while until I can do much. First need to get my vb4 forum migrated. I've got a really great group of active users, but even with their help, it's going to take time to build up a useful set of "likes" on content...

I just purchased XenForo and the enhanced search add-on. :) While Vanilla seems to have put more work into improving search relevance, I'm just not comfortable with their hosting-oriented business model. Hopefully with some hacking and fiddling I can get at least some level of user feedback...

Thanks Mike, for taking the time to answer. It's pretty awesome you guys spend time on your forum! I realize improving search probably isn't a high development priority, but do you suppose there's any chance XenForo might move towards exporting more meta data into elasticsearch? My hope is to...

Thanks! That really clears things up. I guess I'm just too used to vbulletin4.

Over the last few days, I've been reading up on elasticsearch. It seems incredibly powerful and capable! The JSON-based query language has amazing features, like boosting the relative weight on relevancy for many search factors. As I keep reading more, I keep wondering how much of the forum's...

At this point, I'm almost certain we're going to migrate from vb4. I just need to figure out which add-ons are needed!

On my vb4 forum, the "Insert Image" button brings up a little window with 2 tabs: "From Computer" and "From URL". Over the last few years, my users have posted thousands of images this way. When I write a message here, the similar "Image" button only shows "Image URL". There's no upload from...

I'm happy to spend extra for the enhanced search! Can you give me any pointers to where I might read up on the relevance weighting and other tuning possibilities? I found this documentation page, but it seems to only cover basic install and keyword indexing.

I have a moderately sized forum regarding DIY electronics, currently running vb4. It has a lot of really great content buried in about 50000 posts on about 6000 threads. The main user complaint is the uselessness of vb4's search function. My users often wish to search for answers to their...