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Posted on 2010 May 13 01:44 (Thursday)
By JohnHolden (ID:1477, Silver, Web Site)
ITMA. It strikes me that the forum is an extremely important and useful asset that is blocked by a lack of functionality, essentially, if the topic is not on the first couple of pages it is virtually unfindable unless you hit on the right keyword in the title, long, long shot.
Is there no reasonably easy way to break it up into topics so that some of the nuggets are more easily found?
Perhaps incorporate YABB or some other free forum template?
Yours, busy looking for work for others.
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| Posted on 2010 May 13 14:27 (Thursday)
By Aardvarkbooks (ID:432, Founder)
Peter and I were speaking just recently. I was stating that the valuation site, should have available reference to condition differences, and a ready reckoner for price comparisons in realtion to these conditions.
As you state those two topics were discussed on the Forum and that was prior to the searchable Forum. So lost..... as are helpful topics on book sizes and others useful comments as you point out.
The discussion was heading towards me doing a document, and Peter had offered a separate page for something as useful as these. But I agree with you, and would agree with you whole heartedly if I knew what YABB was.
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| Posted on 2010 May 13 14:45 (Thursday)
By JohnHolden (ID:1477, Silver, Web Site)
Soorryyyy:-)
YABB, Yet another Bulletin Board, free open source bulletin board software, see here http://www.yabbforum.com/ Here's an example http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl
They are customisable of course so it could be matched to the design of the site.
There are others but that will give you the idea.
Best go and do a bit of my own work instead of finding it for others.
John
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| Posted on 2010 May 15 14:00 (Saturday)
By Peter Blue (ID:1, Founder, PJ Blue.co.uk, Urban Escape & Evasion)
I have just added a better forum search page. Its not finished but should be quite useful as it is.
Enjoy - Peter
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| Posted on 2010 May 15 14:41 (Saturday)
By JohnHolden (ID:1477, Silver, Web Site)
That gets my vote, cheers Peter. It is quite useful as it is.
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| Posted on 2010 May 15 15:10 (Saturday)
By Aardvarkbooks (ID:432, Founder)
Thank you Peter, I shall get back into the habit of being more themematical (and spell correctly), with my titles.
But I just tried using the word Charles, and we have spoken a lot about Charles Dickens haven't we. Then auction, both words found plenty.
Is it best to keep the search simple, or will an accurate sentence placed in the search box be found as readily?
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| Posted on 2010 May 15 15:12 (Saturday)
By Aardvarkbooks (ID:432, Founder)
Further to YABB, I have never used reddit. (Below). Does that supply Rarelist with additional links or visibility??
If it is advantageous to us, do we need a tutorial? Or is it just me on mi own again.
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| Posted on 2010 May 15 18:32 (Saturday)
By Peter Blue (ID:1, Founder, PJ Blue.co.uk, Urban Escape & Evasion)
The search is very basic; just enter a word or a phrase.
I'm also adding some more improvements like book caching which should help ease the stress on the database.
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| Posted on 2010 May 17 16:40 (Monday)
By Aardvarkbooks (ID:432, Founder)
Thanks for all the behind the scenes man hours you put in.
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| Posted on 2010 May 17 16:50 (Monday)
By Peter Blue (ID:1, Founder, PJ Blue.co.uk, Urban Escape & Evasion)
Your welcome.
As RareList now pulls in about 7,000+ page hits per day (220,000 / month) I am looking at ways to ease the stress on our server (in the short term) and to use distributed hosting (in the long term) - should keep me busy for a while !!
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| Posted on 2010 May 18 23:32 (Tuesday)
By JohnHolden (ID:1477, Silver, Web Site)
Yes Peter, thanks for the work you do. I shall unashamedly try and add to it :-)
If there is anything none techy I can do to lighten the load (apart from shut up) ask.
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| Posted on 2010 May 19 02:20 (Wednesday)
By JohnHolden (ID:1477, Silver, Web Site)
I snuck a sneaky link on Abebooks.com tonight explaining how I used twitter to drive search engines to listing on sites such as rarebooks.com
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| Posted on 2010 Jun 16 12:00 (Wednesday)
By Peter Blue (ID:1, Founder, PJ Blue.co.uk, Urban Escape & Evasion)
Mentioning RareList as much as possible will certainly help - especially if you can put a link to us !
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