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cagliostro
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14 years ago

Hello.

Trying to search here a few times, every 1-2 searches i get:

Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.


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Jaben
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14 years ago
I believe it's this issue:


System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at YAF.Controls.DialogBox.OkButton_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument)
   at System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button.System.Web.UI.IPostBackEventHandler.RaisePostBackEvent(String eventArgument)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(IPostBackEventHandler sourceControl, String eventArgument)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.RaisePostBackEvent(NameValueCollection postData)
   at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)

Thanks for reporting it.

Jaben
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14 years ago
Thanks for reporting this... I noticed it too. It's too bad this version is so unstable.
tommy382
14 years ago
I find searing in YAF not robust, not accurate, and may slow down the site when the hosting server is relatively weak. Since version 1.9.4, I created a separate site to do the searching and disabled internal searching inside YAF. The separate site can be launched within YAF's search page via the external "Search Engine 1" and "Search Engine 2" plugin design of YAF or can be launched outside of YAF.

The external search is powered by Google (free). I added on some feature such as "search auto complete" (admin only so you can' test it out) and showing recently searched words. See example site:

http://searchforum.tkaraoke.com 

Jaben
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14 years ago

I find searing in YAF not robust, not accurate, and may slow down the site when the hosting server is relatively weak. Since version 1.9.4, I created a separate site to do the searching and disabled internal searching inside YAF. The separate site can be launched within YAF's search page via the external "Search Engine 1" and "Search Engine 2" plugin design of YAF or can be launched outside of YAF.

The external search is powered by Google (free). I added on some feature such as "search auto complete" (admin only so you can' test it out) and showing recently searched words. See example site:

http://searchforum.tkaraoke.com 

Originally Posted by: tommy382 

YAF search performance in v1.9.5 has been improved. I don't agree with your other assertions and since you offer no evidence or explanation for them, I'll assume you are just venting frustration.

In that case, you credibility here is diminished.

tommy382
14 years ago
I took the above action when I was using 1.9.4Final after many users complaining search often didn't find what they were looking for. I verified that clain in a few cases where I knew for sure the posts exist but were not able to locate it via search.

I didn't go back to searching using YAF since so I don't know how well 1.9.5 Search work. I still use 1.9.5's "Search All Post by User X" though and ran into an issue where the result showed about 120 pages but when I was on page N (N > 1 and less than max) and clicked on ">>>" to go to the last page, YAF jumps and showed me the first page instead. I still don't have a work-around for this as of now. I will try to come up with concrete example with links to show my points soon.

Searching using Google is exernal to YAF and has its limitation but will not incur any overhead on the server hosting YAF while searched.