ballscrewbob:
Robin if you wish to CP your PM comments to me into here feel free as they offer Matteo some extra context.
Not sure what you had in mind, and some of them may have been dealt with but here are the contents of the messages
First some comments on my experience ...
I tried searching for "several things" Robin2 in the hope that it would find Several Things at a Time
It didn't.
It did find some Threads that referred to my tutorial.
Initially my search term was several things Robin2 i.e. no quotes and I noticed that one of the links it showed only had the word "things". I added the quotes hoping that it would insist on finding both words together but it made no difference. I have experienced this behaviour (i.e. treating each word separately) on other Fora and I find it intensely frustrating.
The default order seems to be Newest First (I did not change it) but its first result is from 2015 and the second from 2020
And now some more general comments ...
This whole thing is a complete waste of time unless it is better than a search using Google (or Duck Duck Go which I normally use).
Limiting the search to specific sections of the Forum may not be as useful as it seems - it assumes that the person already knows where the item is. I think I would rarely use that.
Limiting the search to a period between two dates would be very useful - especially if you are trying to find something that was posted recently, or something that you know was not recent.
I think I would find it useful to be able to limit a search to posts by a specific user.
One more thing that I had forgotten to check.
I did another search on serial input basics and the first result included the word "asynchronous"
I then did a search on serial input basics -asynchronous which I was hoping would exclude results containing the word "asynchronous". But it did not.
Being able to exclude words is very important and is a standard Google feature.
It should be a simple matter to make the Prev 12345 Next line appear at the top of the page as well as at the bottom
Another couple of thoughts from me ...
It would probably be useful to have a language filter - I searched for nRF24L01 and the first item was in Spanish which would be no interest to me. Conversely, a Spanish speaker might like to restrict his/her search to that language.
And it would also probably be useful to be able to limit the results to one item per Thread - getting several results from the same Thread can make it difficult to find a Thread that has a different perspective on the problem
If you care to check you will see that I have omitted some stuff. Let me know if you also want me to include it - I suspect you won't.
...R