Hi, i am not aware if whether or not Discourse uses sphinx for its search function http://sphinxsearch.com but it is very powerful and light. I know on my forum which uses Vbulletin, i had to integrate the sphynix search which works really well than the Mysql default search which comes with VB =) b/…

I see the issue as being the lack of excerpts, not the results pane being too small.

This looks like a better idea and style wise could be integrated well =)

You don’t think “lack of excerpts” and “results pane being small” are related? Maybe a little?

I still encourage giving the option to use Sphinx Search. Vbulletin 5.x even though in beta, their new software is using Sphinx, VB 4.x didn’t have it and the quality of search wasn’t fast nor great. Many had to use a 3rd party plugin to use it, it is also very light on servers. Vb learned its less…

What problem is this going to solve exactly? Search is fast enough on Discourse.

[image] michaeld: What problem is this going to solve exactly? Search is fast enough on Discourse. Well, we haven’t tried to use Discourse on big active boards. But I am a believer in using what is best out there instead of using what is just working nicely. If something is popular and known …

Adding a dependency on Sphinx doesn’t seem necessary to me. Our complaint-driven development process hasn’t found that postgresql’s search is lacking. Sphinx is nice, but using it and maintaining it has a cost (search config, managing sphinx processes, re-indexing after deploys, etc.).

[image] sam: we need a full page “topic list” like search results page. That is exactly what we’ve started with our search results as a route plugin We’ve also added categories as facets on the left: [image] There’s an extra link top right in todays search results to go to the serp: [im…

[image] neil: Adding a dependency on Sphinx doesn’t seem necessary to me. Our complaint-driven development process hasn’t found that postgresql’s search is lacking. Sphinx is nice, but using it and maintaining it has a cost (search config, managing sphinx processes, re-indexing after deploys, et…

[image] katie: Many webmasters love to use Sphinx Others love Elasticsearch, or Solr, or Google Sitesearch - plugin territory, I guess.

Sphinx search for Discourse

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michaeld (Michael - Communiteq) March 16, 2014, 8:00pm 20

You can’t compare MySQL based boards where search is slow and painful to Discourse. One of the reasons it uses Postgresql is to work around those limitations.

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