So I just got a new version of firefox and for whatever reason, none of my add ons followed, theyre just...gone! So I went to search for the craigslist add on created by a forum goer here, and when using the search field on the GRM website, I get the fiery celica of doom. What gives? Does anyone have the link?
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July 21, 2011 7:19 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
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July 21, 2011 8:09 a.m. ppddppdd Reader
I'm having that problem with Chrome, too. You can search GRM with google, though. Most of it is indexed. Just add "site:grassrootsmotorsports.com" without the quotes to the search.
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July 22, 2011 12:40 p.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
thanks, that worked perfectly!!!!
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July 26, 2011 6:01 p.m. BoxheadTim SuperDork
4cylndrfury wrote:
So I just got a new version of firefox and for whatever reason, none of my add ons followed, theyre just...gone! So I went to search for the craigslist add on created by a forum goer here, and when using the search field on the GRM website, I get the fiery celica of doom. What gives? Does anyone have the link?
I haven't got the link either but it appears that searching on GRM at least from FF 5.0.1 is broken for me, too.
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Aug. 1, 2011 4:33 p.m. donalson SuperDork
other way with google is to hit "advanced search" type grassrootsmotorsports into the domain box
I use it for a lot of places these days... seems to work better then the forum based searches.
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Aug. 2, 2011 8:33 a.m. m4ff3w SuperDork
GRM search is borked for both Chrome and IE8 for me.
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Aug. 2, 2011 11:14 p.m. Jeff Dork
I know it has always been a low priority. But can we pretty please, with sugar on top, and a big fat cherry, have a search engine that works? If you don't want to bother can you at least make a Google site search available on the forum pages?
Thanks!
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Aug. 3, 2011 8:33 a.m. Marjorie Suddard General Manager
It's actually a high priority. Which is why we are paying a nice web design firm to build a whole new site. Unfortunately, there's no quick fix on this one--the search function is built into the base code, and tied to a Yahoo search utility that no longer works the same way. (At least, that's the Little Golden Books version of what's actually a very involved and not-pretty story.)
We're looking into some workarounds, but it doesn't look good and we don't want to slow the progress on the new site to do a half-assed fix on this one that may or may not work.
Be patient, grasshoppers. In the meantime, I've stickied the couple of excellent suggestions from this thread on the main site.
Margie
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Aug. 3, 2011 8:40 a.m. Tom Heath Web Manager
^^ What she said. ^^
Yahoo has deprecated the search function the site was built with, so we're working on another solution. I'm working with a developer who's familiar with our platform and he says he should be able to find a short-term solution while we're cooking up the new site, but we can't get him on board until early next week.
In the meantime, adding the words "site:grassrootsmotorsports.com" to your search terms in google is a pretty darn good stopgap measure (I think works better than our site search did in the first place) BUT...I look forward to having a better solution.
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Aug. 3, 2011 10:18 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
"site:grassrootsmotorsports.com" worked well for me to find the craigslist add on, and a few others...easy peasy
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Aug. 4, 2011 10:13 p.m. Jeff Dork
Thanks guys. I always appreciate the feed back. Ciao
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Aug. 18, 2011 7:19 a.m. Tim Baxter SuperDork
That totally sucks yahoo dropped their search service.
Tom, have your guy look at django-filters. It's not site-wide (forums only, or articles only, or whatever), but it's easy and effective.
For a more robust solution I'd suggest haystack, which I think is installed. I know I was playing with it at one point.
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Aug. 18, 2011 7:45 a.m. 4cylndrfury SuperDork
Tim!!!!
Its always nice to hear from you!
that is all
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Aug. 19, 2011 12:18 p.m. Tim Baxter SuperDork
Aw thanks. I check in pretty regularly, just haven't been posting as much.
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Aug. 24, 2011 2:09 p.m. RossD SuperDork
If there are no copyright issues, can we get the picture of the burning Miata from the London Riots in for the picture of the Burning Celica?
