Story search malfunctioning - the story!

24 Dec 2011

It was one of those early christmas mornings the year was 2011 and Catnip had not yet gone to sleep. She was searching for a story, one with something extra to get her mind going. It had to take place on a train, she thought to herself and found the search drop down menu at the sites header. She typed in her keyword and pressed enter. There were many stories, more than one page in fact. Maybe this first page didn't hold the one she wanted, so she decided to go to the next page. What now? Catnip stared at the screen, mouth opened wide as if she was about to put a candy cane in it, but before she would have been able to receive it she clenched her jaw tight again. Where were the stories? where could they have gone? It was promised, was it not? Several pages with "train" in them. Catnip lost her cool for a moment, even causing her lazy cat to lift his head from his paws and stare at her. Finally she decided to try it again, and again.
With no good result coming out of it she was about to give up, go to bed and let it be. As she moved her attention to the x of her browser she found that the right hand upper corner search box was beckoning her to move her cursor closer. Catnips fingers shaked, her breath quickened and the fingertips pressed down each letter in the magical word t-r-a-i-n, she moved the cursor over to the calmingly blue icon and pressed it. A surge went through her body as she could see the stories lined up in front of her. Would it work this time, would it be possible to see the next page of results? Catnip held her breath as she scrolled down to thebottom of the page and pressed [2]. Yes, oh god! YES! It's coming! It's coming, oh my god! It's working. Finally! She press through the pages of results and after clicking the las page she fall back on her bed, giggling and shivering with delight.

The End.

Drop down search result page 2 sad

http://www.lushstories.com/search-results.aspx?sf=RANK&page=2&cs=758)
Right hand search box result page 2:(http://www.lushstories.com/search-results.aspx?query=train&sf=RANK&page=2&cs=758)

I see what's wrong here, do you?

6 Jan 2012

Is this still an issue?

I made a couple of fixes last week to the search results page when another member reported a problem.

Sorry Cat, I feel bad now for not noticing this one Embarassed

6 Jan 2012

While you're here Gav, I am not sure which requests you've logged, but can you code into the new search, when your backlog is all gone:

- Ability to search within categories you are interested in (via checkboxes - all checked by default).

- Feature that allows search results to return multiple words ("ginger" and "Sprite") - not all those stories that contain either word.

- Allow words to be excluded ("Leather Fetish" -latex) - along the lines of google search.

- Search by as many keywords / tags as you wish, with the most relevant returns at the top (I'm sure that's an easy one evil4

6 Jan 2012

Tsssk tssk, it was in Christmas eve.
What can I say, not everyone check the forums that day.
Glad it got fixed, that's what matters.