[Idea] Suggestion: Make search possible with less characters

[deleted user]

I wanted to make a search for "VHS" and realized I couldn't because it was less than 4 characters. 

Would be nice to be able to search for shorter terms too.

[Feallan]

It's a limitation for the type of searching (MySQL full text) this forum has, I can't lower it unfortunately.

[deleted user]

Ah, I totally forgot about this.

If you have access to the config/global variables, you could change ft_min_word_len: https://www.electrictoolbox.com/mysql-fu...rd-length/

If not, I guess it can't be helped.

[Feallan]

It's a shared hosting service, I don't have access to MySQL configuration

[deleted user]

Ah okay.

[BronzeTitan]

Google (and other search engines) would like to be your friend!

Enter the site you wish to search, i.e. "site:fanres.com", followed by your search term(s), i.e. "vhs" . .

[zoidberg]

Google searching also helps with the pesky 30 second rule.

[deleted user]

Thanks thats a good idea.

[Valeyard]

Yeah can you lower the 30 second rule to 10 at the most for logged-in users? Because if you do a search and then click on "View Today's Posts" it will let you with no restriction, if you do it in the reverse order - first click "View Today's Posts" and then do a search it tells you to have to wait 30 seconds from when you clicked on "View Today's Posts" link. Quite annoying.

[spoRv]

I've set 3 characters and 10 seconds limit for everyone for testing purposes; if it will work well, maybe these limits would be definitive.