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General advice for newcomers to this phpBB-powered forum

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:46 am

Search

Some key phrases can not be sought by phpBB. Some of the search restrictions can be worked around by use of wildcards. Take the hint in the search dialogue.

Drafts and edition

When replying to a topic: to make an attachment, or to paste then format as code from a panic report, use the full editor:

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The extension panic is not allowed

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Oct 04, 2012 1:39 pm

If you try to upload a panic report, phpBB responds:

The extension panic is not allowed.


To work around this restriction:

  1. open the panic report
  2. in the Console window to the .panic file, select all text
  3. copy
  4. in the forum, use the full editor
  5. click 'Code'
  6. where the cursor blinks, paste.
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Re: General advice for newcomers to this phpBB-powered forum

Post by grahamperrin » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:07 am

Some of the search restrictions can be worked around by use of wildcards.


A search for perform* fails to find at least two topics that include the word performance. Ah well ?
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special characters and post failures

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:15 am

Attempting to submit a post that includes a tick/check character
????Option-V
causes an SQL error.

Code: Select all
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

Incorrect string value: '\xE2\x88\x9A ca...' for column 'post_text' at row 1 [1366]

An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.


If you're unlucky, your browser may be unable to go back to what you wrote.

Hint

If your post will include special characters, then before submission:

  • copy all text of the post.
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code not found

Post by grahamperrin » Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:27 am

Code seems to be not indexed.

Examples:


Hint

If code includes any phrase that you'd like to be found by searching:

  • consider repeating the phrase without formatting.
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partial workarounds to phpBB search failures

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Nov 01, 2012 9:56 pm

A search for perform* fails to find at least two topics that include the word performance.


Now three pages of wildcard-based search results from phpBB but still, no trace of the required topic ??Performance Observation.

Third party index and search services

DuckDuckGo

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Azevo.getgreenbytes.com shows only limited indexing.

Google

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3 ... nbytes.com might offer better results for a while, or occasionally. However the Google bot is not always seen, and whilst there's link?spam I might expect the bot to never return.

Google searches of the domain can not find established knowledge base content such as ZEVO Wiki ZFSPool/Disk?Device?Names.

I do like that Google can give the URL of a topic without the URL of a forum ??useful for when topics are moved from (say) ZEVO?Installation to General?Discussion.
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Welcome back, Google [Bot]

Post by grahamperrin » Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:35 am

??Google bot is not always seen, and whilst there's link?spam I might expect the bot to never return.


Welcome back, bot:

2012-11-09 12-12-52 screenshot.png


Still, Google doesn't find some of the past content that I need to find ?
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avoid bumping

Post by grahamperrin » Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:19 am

Please avoid bumping topics.

The intention is good, but the phpBB implementation is bad.

(Dates are false, which is confusing when other readers attempt to visualise things on a timeline.)
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