blowersearch / botbsearch update log

206242

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/

206299

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
.

Also, it looks a little funny on mobile
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206303

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!

206311

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?

206314

Thanks Blower, Very Cool!

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

206326

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

agargara: yes

206354

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)

206366

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

206435

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.

206442

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

206478

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.

206490

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.

206491

jokes on you, blower!

your search is already in service!! :D

206493

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

206498

Hey, blower:

206516

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

206550

just fixed the ass page getting too large

206689

hell yeah - expert line breaks!

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

206728

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.

206857

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

206872

update: search has been made way more size responsive

206873

YESSS!!!! thank u a ton

206931

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

207010

Fixed. Now sorts by format / class / category

207011

thanks! working nicely now

208214

whenever you update ur search query on mobile and hit "enter" it just switches to the dropdown on the right instead of actually starting the search. (android, chrome)

212609

check out our new subtitles

212610

ah ah this works perfectly!

212612

i think there might be a blank one, which is funny. but the rest of the page repositions itself according to the subtitle's size (you can also see a slight shift with the unicode one) and thus on the blank one the search bar shifted upwards and overlapped with the title's hyperlink area. clicking search took me to the homepage! which is maybe also a cool feature in that it made me disoriented, but i wonder if there's an elegant way to make that space a fixed size.

218744

if you have any ideas for feature requests related to Decadent Decade II I'd be interested to hear them. Ideally it wouldn't require a new column. I was thinking I could highlight or add some marking to the date cell of entries in the past 10 years.

218751

this is not a dd2 feature req but name column sorting seems bugged!

218796

if you sort before some of the results get added to the table it doesn't resort them. I must have turned that off for lag reasons, or something. If that's not what you're talking about then I haven't seen anything

240436

I have heard it a thousand times: "blower, I am trying to find the exact matches in my search but they aren't bold and flashing!!" And what a horrible fate--to not have anything bold and flashing on your webpage. This has been fixed now. (This should make it easier to find what you are looking for if you unexpectedly get a giant list.) Let me know if you have any feedback on the stylesheet. Oh, and entries submitted to a major and not an xhb now get a marking too.

Thanks!

240443

Has the flavortext under the site name been updated yet? Would love to see the new list!

240444

Yes it was, I saw some of the new subtitles while searching :D