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Post by TheDeuce »

i'm wondering if there's a way to modify how the search function works on here. i tried searching for "captain america" in the issue analysis forum and it told me that that was too common of a phrase! i understand that it might be a common thing to say on here, but it seems a little odd that i can't search for it.

also. i know we have a checklist for what books have yet to entered into the MCP database, but is there a list of comics that no one's done an analysis for, so they're not even eligible to go into the database?
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Re: search function

Post by Somebody »

And "Spider-Man" brings up
No posts were found because the word spider-man is not contained in any post.
Which seems a bit iffy...

And, in theory at least, The Checklist is every canon book which has not been entered into the MCP, whether they've had an analysis done or not.
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Post by Russ Chappell »

Fixed.

The issue with Spider-Man is that the search is rather wonky with hyphenated words. It finds Spider-Man if you search on "spider" but not "spider-man". As for "captain america", the search feature won't display results, if a certain percentage of messages contains the word. By default, that percentage was 5%, which seemed a little low to me. I reset it to 20%, and now "captain america" shows up just fine.
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