User Interface & Addons

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Tarz — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:50:59 GMT

Use the generic search box at the very top of the site then (the grey box) - I've found that to be much more forgiving.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Defenestrator — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:18:13 GMT

Yeah, how does "Make Search completely useless" constitute a compromise?

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Tarz — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:08:19 GMT

Blissfulpain wrote:

Tarz wrote:

If all else fails you can always rely on google - just include "curse" in your search terms and 99 times out of 100 the first result is a link to the addon on curse :)

absolutely your solution works... but i shouldn't HAVE to do that. I come to this site for functionality and selection. If they hinder functionality, then the selection will move somewhere else.

In the same way, the curse coders shouldn't HAVE to modify their site to suit your needs. There's a lot of overhead in code to search DBs like that and personally I'd rather have a fast running curse even if it means I have to resort to google once in a while.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

jtbalogh — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:24:34 GMT

Ya, search was so useful before, not now.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Blissfulpain — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:23:52 GMT

Tarz wrote:

If all else fails you can always rely on google - just include "curse" in your search terms and 99 times out of 100 the first result is a link to the addon on curse :)

absolutely your solution works... but i shouldn't HAVE to do that. I come to this site for functionality and selection. If they hinder functionality, then the selection will move somewhere else.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Tarz — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:22:54 GMT

If all else fails you can always rely on google - just include "curse" in your search terms and 99 times out of 100 the first result is a link to the addon on curse :)

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

JohnCover — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:42:38 GMT

Tekao wrote:

PLEASE change it back to the previous way

I'd have to agree. I don't know all the technical reasons behind this recent chance... But all the previous features were very useful. Perhaps you could make some sort of "Advance Search" option to compensate for the loss of these features?

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Blissfulpain — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:07:50 GMT

I have always been a supporter of curse because it has always stood out as the most useful hosting site... that is no longer the case, and you are making my hobby of finding mods for myself and other people harder and not fun.

I can no longer find mods on this site unless I do a google search of your domain... how stupid is that?

I already hate UI.worldofwar and WoWI just doesn't have the database you guys do...

please, switch the search/sort function back... it just makes more sense... I don't see this "trade-off" you're talking about.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Tarz — Thu, 31 May 2007 19:55:50 GMT

I appreciate how much work it takes to get a decent search algorythm working having created a few myself in the past, but bear in mind guys our beloved curse is under constant development - as soon as they can make a more accurate search system that doesn't cause the servers to fall over I'm sure they will :)

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Caramirdan — Wed, 30 May 2007 10:49:09 GMT

I appreciate the work that goes into finding/making new search engine capabilites; however, it would be nice to be able to search the add-ons' names again, not including UI packs.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Tekao — Wed, 30 May 2007 09:36:07 GMT

Please please please PLEASE change it back to the previous way! This engine is nothing like Google; On Google I can actually find what I'm looking for. I tried typing in 'color' like I did in the past to find the 'RS_ClassColors' addon and where was it? First page? No... Second? Try the SEVENTH page for a mod in which the word 'color' is actually in the name! This is what you call accurate? There were six other pages of which most had nothing to do with 'color' at all! Oh, and guess how many results came up when I typed 'classcolor'. One--for the WRONG MOD. This new search engine seriously sucks and I have no idea who actually finds it useful because I sure don't. The previous version was great for discovering new mods but this one... You might as well browse randomly because it'll take you the same amount of time to find anything.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Zinor — Thu, 24 May 2007 22:11:27 GMT

That's because it's not intended to be a search page. It was a compromise that had to be made.

Think of it like Google. It finds what you want, but it doesn't let you sort the pages by how popular they are, or when they were last updated, etc.. It's just not something that is easily doable with an accurate searching system like that.

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Brunus — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:28:04 GMT

ya i see that but u cant limit ur search:
like if in the search menu i put atlas it wont show up the way u linked and i cant view it by most updated and by alphabetical

Re: Addon search Menu sucks now

Zinor — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:55:28 GMT

/downloads/browse/

Addon search Menu sucks now

Brunus — Fri, 18 May 2007 03:21:17 GMT

ur search menu sucks now i cant view them in ne order now cant view them alphabetically or by updated plz go back or at least add those features back on