Site improvement: “Search” will comb comments, too

We promised during WSB Pledge Day that we would keep working to make the site worth your time and trouble (not to mention the $ that many readers were kind enough to invest). We’re working on several upgrades. The first successful one fixes a somewhat secret (but annoying) problem: Until now, comments on WSB were not searchable; if you remembered reading something in a comment and tried to find it with the WSB search box, no dice — “search” would only look at the posts (though comments at least were indexed by Google and other offsite search engines). Now, this is fixed, so whatever you put in the WSB search box, you will get back a page with any posts featuring that text in either the body of the post or its comments. (Test it by searching for the name you use to leave comments!) NEXT UP: We’re working on the oft-requested “open discussion” (forum/bulletin board) feature — thought we had one earlier tonight, but it blew up the site, so we had to cancel it — stand by for eventual triumph!

4 Replies to "Site improvement: "Search" will comb comments, too"

  • Forest September 2, 2007 (1:02 am)

    Please expand the comment time listings so they include the day of a comment, not just its hour.

  • WSB September 2, 2007 (1:52 am)

    thanks for the reminder — we had stared at that before a million times and couldn’t figure out the problem — we just took one more crack at it, kind of a wild guess, and, voila!

  • Wes September 2, 2007 (6:59 am)

    I like the forum idea. A lot better than having a whole bunch of discussions in the comments section.
    Good job!

  • miws September 2, 2007 (8:06 am)

    Yay! Thank you Forest, for suggestioning it!
    Yay! Thank you WSB for implementing it!

    I have long longed to have the posting dates listed as well!

    Mike

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