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Dear RFF administrators,
here's a little riddle for you, followed by a petition.
Question:
"Which two things do a Leica M7 and a ZI, an Olympus XA and a Yashica GX, a Canon 5D and a Leica M9, a Nikon SP and a Leica II, a 35 and a 90, and a f2 and a f4 lens have in common?"
Answer:
1. They're heavily discussed on RFF. In fact they're the bulk of RFF's subject matter.
2. You can't search for them using the RFF search function, because the minimum search term length is set too high.
So here's the petition bit.
I know we can use Google search instead, but while it does support searching for XAs and M3s, it will also find them in users' signatures, it will turn up posts made at 11:35 when looking for a 35 mm lens, and it does not support all the other RFF search functions (like searching by thread, or looking for posts by specific users).
So please, the next time you do some maintenance on the RFF site, please decrease the minimum search term length in vBulletin from 3 to 2 or even to 1 while you're at it. It's a simple setting in VBulletin, plus a single configuration option in MySQL (if you use MySQL full text search).
If you work on the site anyway (if because of the Tapatalk situation or for whatever reason), please do this. It's simple, there's no performance penalty except a one-time indexing operation (that the database does on the side), it doesn't require third-party software, and it will make RFF a lot easier and more useful.
here's a little riddle for you, followed by a petition.
Question:
"Which two things do a Leica M7 and a ZI, an Olympus XA and a Yashica GX, a Canon 5D and a Leica M9, a Nikon SP and a Leica II, a 35 and a 90, and a f2 and a f4 lens have in common?"
Answer:
1. They're heavily discussed on RFF. In fact they're the bulk of RFF's subject matter.
2. You can't search for them using the RFF search function, because the minimum search term length is set too high.
So here's the petition bit.
I know we can use Google search instead, but while it does support searching for XAs and M3s, it will also find them in users' signatures, it will turn up posts made at 11:35 when looking for a 35 mm lens, and it does not support all the other RFF search functions (like searching by thread, or looking for posts by specific users).
So please, the next time you do some maintenance on the RFF site, please decrease the minimum search term length in vBulletin from 3 to 2 or even to 1 while you're at it. It's a simple setting in VBulletin, plus a single configuration option in MySQL (if you use MySQL full text search).
If you work on the site anyway (if because of the Tapatalk situation or for whatever reason), please do this. It's simple, there's no performance penalty except a one-time indexing operation (that the database does on the side), it doesn't require third-party software, and it will make RFF a lot easier and more useful.
