hello everyone. my fork of Jangler's beloved botbsearch is very very close to becoming the new search linked in the sidebar. I myself have been using it via a link redirector. It's working great! But I wanted to make this thread just to see if anyone had some feature request or magic coding efficiency I missed.

https://blower5.github.io/botbsearch/
https://github.com/blower5/botbsearch/

Nice work!

I just want to note that it looks like the tablesorter plugin doesn't play nice when there are many rows. Try this and see how it performs for you: https://blower5.github.io/botbsearch/?q=th&qtype=name&ftype=all . It hangs for me

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Also, it looks a little funny on mobile

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I'll take a look at fixing the mobile layout. For your other issue: the search isn't really meant to answer the kinds of queries where large amounts of data is being handled (e.g. how many entries in every YEA VIDEOGAME were there? or, how many battles have OHB in the title) These are better solved with specific API calls (or SQL requests) ...and even then, in trying to answer these realistic example questions, tablesorter performs much better than the worst case 'th' list. I find tablesorter very fully featured and intuitive even if it struggles with large lists.

Thanks for helping improve my search!

when it's time to actually integrate with botb, would it be possible to autoload my current palette instead of having to manually type it in?

Thanks Blower, Very Cool!

Feature request: would it be possible to have a column for the format for Battles and Entries?

goluigi: I don't think I'm allowed to read the botbrid cookie but that was the solution I was thinking of.

agargara: yes

regarding the palette autoloader, i was thinking on the botb end we send the botbr's current palette ID too in the url (which is why i said "when it's time to integrate with botb")

this would only sync the palette if you go to bloogle from botb but that's probably going to be like 90%+ of requests anyway (as opposed to just directly going to the url)

updated with entry, battle, and botbr format/class icons

Similarly, are you planning on replacing the info column with an icons column for thread searches? Maybe then, the info column could inform the number of posts instead.

the api does not return reply count for threads. but I could add the thread icons

Noticed you added the thread icons. They look neat.

Relatedly, if you could also add the lyceum () and the playlist () icons, then I think we'd have pretty much everything icon-wise covered.

Done!

I tried doing some sort of option that, when enabled, used some css magic to display all the icons in your palette colors, but I couldn't get it to work. More of a userscript-type feature anyway.

jokes on you, blower!

your search is already in service!! :D

PS... if I search "ass" there are many responses and some of them have very long names which break the layout

Hey, blower:

search is looking so good!! thank you for putting in all this work

just fixed the ass page getting too large

hell yeah - expert line breaks!

are there any other things that need to be searchable in the api?

it works great as is but if I get to request api features, in order:

threads are missing some sort of extra information for the far right column, post count would be great but date of most recent post might work as well (which exists but doesn't return for non-privileged users)

palettes aren't searchable, if they were a lot of old palettes could be rediscovered which would be cool

...other than that, I don't think there's anything left to catalog, really! Tags are already searchable but I'm not sure they should appear in search results.

I changed the width of the body element to "fit-content" and moved the palette menu div below the logo div and it seemed to pretty much fix the mobile layout issue

edit: changing the width of the body element to 960px works as well, oops

update: search has been made way more size responsive

YESSS!!!! thank u a ton

bug report: sorting by the icon column seems to just sort them in "default" order rather than in a way relating to the icon column

Fixed. Now sorts by format / class / category

thanks! working nicely now