Hopefully people see this news and no longer ask everyday

Also trying site:www.omnimaga.org can possibly yield extra results. I noticed this happening with simplemachines.org.

Btw is the search engine slowness due to server misconfig or is the calculator Omnimaga runs on simply not powerful enough to sustain the extreme load?

Sorunome could add word filters on OmnomIRC that can detects if somebody asks why the search is broken or why can't I search and make OmnomIRC automatically redirect them here in an iframe, with a rickroll right besides.

Can you put a display:none on the search box?  That way, nobody would type in it by accident.

Or someone should replace the search box completely with Google's.

That's a better way of dealing with this issue indeed. As long as this search bar is there and it doesn't work even for registred users people will ask the same question over and over. Is it possible to use an SFM plugin that replaces the search with google custom search?

Yeah, you're right. But I think admins don't really have much time lately, so we're just telling people the search bar is broken until some admin have time to deal with this.

Only in SMF 2.0. People have pretty much stopped creating/maintaining SMF 1.1.x plugins.

What's deterring us from updating?

Quote from: blue_bear_94 on May 05, 2013, 03:33:54 pm

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on May 05, 2013, 02:42:55 pm

Only in SMF 2.0. People have pretty much stopped creating/maintaining SMF 1.1.x plugins.

What's deterring us from updating?

We have like 6 themes we have to update to SMF 2.0 format, plus updating all the plugins we have to SMF 2.0 as well, maybe even rewrite our homemade plugins such as OmnomIRC, which is pretty much a tedious task. We're working on it though.

i know the v5 themes and to a lesser extent v2 are based on v4 (which is based on SMF 1.1 default), so those might take less time to update (mostly CSS color and image set changes), but the other two themes are different and v5 has to be converted to begin with. Thankfully the smf 1.1 classic style theme is still available in v2 format so it saves some work, but I would still say 60-90 hours total, based on how long it took me to create the themes.

For now I guess a custom search could be added in the current themes via the editor there (I think we can even hide the current search then add our own HTML or PHP code).

I think there is a 1.1 to 2.0 converter when you attempt to upgrade the board, but I tried it once and it totally destroyed the theme.