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Originally Posted by johnnyace
You pretty much answered me Neal - the search system isn't watertight...not ideal on a submarine, but hey ho!
I suppose I could have made my question clearer: IF I am currently looking in the SH3 section of downloads and I conduct a keyword 'search' for a download there, will the search ONLY look in the SH3 section, i.e. so that I KNOW for sure that any filtered downloads are SH3 compatible? If not, this is quite simply, IMHO, all that needs to be modified in the coding of the search routine...to only search within the 'bulkheads' of the current location.
Please understand Neal: I am just trying to offer a constructive suggestion here...not criticizing. I LOVE this site and I have realized, only recently, that I need to start giving and not just take from the great site that you have here!
Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds to you Neal!
John
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Hi Johnny, no problem, I really appreciate the feedback. Yeah, I wish there was a feasible way to improve this system. FYI, the Downloads system is a 3rd party mod to vBulletin, and the guy who created it no longer supports it, so when it breaks, it's me who has to jury rig it
If I could get a good developer to take the existing system, make some improvements to it, I would seriously consider starting over. But I have not found anyone to do it, for hire or otherwise.
vBulletin is a good forum system, and it only costs a couple hundred dollars, so I have been really happy with the investment. The vB devs keep making new versions, but they really should assign someone to keep working on vB3, and add more stuff like this downloads, and an awards system, and more anti spam... but they don't.
The other limitation, the mods are created by a hundred different guys and uploaded by them, along with a dozen of other guys who help out. I put together a How To with instructions on categories but there are still some files in the wrong place, or some mods that either work for more than one sim, or are mislabeled...
I will see about that search improvement, maybe there is something we can do with that.
thanks, man!
Neal