What is on Your Mind?

Dear friends and colleagues,


for nostalgic reasons I was trying to find an old post. But, unfortunstely, the search for "A Year and older" stopped at 500 entries, somewhere early in 2017.


Do you have any idea on how to get to 2012 / 2013 threads / posts without knowing title nor keywords?


Would it be feasible (in the long run) to allow for the entry of a year to search for?



Thanks and regards
Rüdiger

Sounds like an easy thing to add to the advanced search function.

Consider it on the TODO list !

In the meantime you could use the "sort by" function in the Advanced search and use "Ascending Order" instead of "Descending Order". It might get you the hit within the 500 Posts that show up.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Thank you, bakunin, and shame on me! I was pondering on using that for a split second but decided against it. Now with bakunin rubbing my nose in it, I found: it worked!


Still, all the posts between the first 500 and the last 500 will go unfound, so Neo's announced help is appreciated.

Hey Rudi,

With :

One of my highest current priorities is to get the "Thank You" button in posts working on mobile. This is a high priority for me. But I am a bit "mentally drained" (or perhaps bored) from all the constant coding, so this upgrade might not be immediate as I have to do some other things in life too (surprise).

However, I agree that adding a "Search By Year" function to the "Advanced Search" form would be useful; but I am sure you can certainly understand the number of users who have so many posts (like you and a few others including me) and a need to search by year for their old posts, is very small compared to the users who could benefit from "Thanks On Mobile" and a few other small upgrade projects; so I have to prioritize. However, I will add that feature you requested in the future, just not now.

Regarding the badging system, I am going to delay calling for comments and let the beta run for a while; and then call for comments later for a number of reasons.

Ravinder says his co-workers love the new system and many have commented "wow" this is one of the best badging systems they have seen, especially on forums. I'm not so excited by either praise or criticism. I just keep working and moving forward, step-by-step.

In closing, this is a technology forum with technical people, so we all should prefer designs and solutions (actionable comments), not opinions without solutions. This is how I was trained by the top brass I used to consult for in the military; and so they always said "bring me solutions, not problems". This is how I think and how I work. I am interested in solutions, not problems. I prefer, or at least hope, even super amazing awk and ksh experts will learn new web development technologies (like Javascript). We should always be learning new things, even when we are expert or very experienced in many things, never stop learning.

It's important to "Keep the Mind of the Beginner" ...which is actually the core of Zen thinking. "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"

Cheers and Thanks.

Hi Neo,


I totally agree that the improved search function is of low priority compared to the current WIP. I'm totally satisfied to find it somewhere on the todo list.
Thanks
Rüdiger

Cheers.

Its a great idea to add a "search by year" function and so I will do it for sure.