Enhanced Search

[Southfork1]

For enhanced search, it's obviously a lift for larger forums but is it also a functional lift? What about for med-large sites with regards to performance lift? (700K posts) Just wondering if it's worth the effort at this point before pulling the trigger.

Thanks,

Chris

 

[el canadiano]

It's more a performance increase than anything. Most small-medium sized forums won't need it.

 

[Paul B]

but is it also a functional lift?

It has a smaller stop word list, supports single character searching, has features such as stemming, relevance, etc.

For example, here's a search using the single character I in thread titles only with the results returned by relevance: http://xenforo.com/community/search/1879927/?q=I&t=post&o=relevance&g=1&c[title_only]=1

If my server supported it I'd install it without a second thought and I only have 100,000 posts.

 

[Mike]

http://xenforo.com/community/forums/enhanced-search-support.56/

Despite the name, not all of the threads in there are support -- there's some good feedback which speaks to your questions.

It's a performance increase and a functionality increase because basically any search will work - and with options like stemming, it will return more useful results by "folding" plurals, etc together.

 

[Southfork1]

Some nifty functional lift things indeed. Sounds worth the effort.

Thanks for your time guys.