A lot of times, when I'm trying to find a message, I'll often remember who sent it (such as a Dr. Geep tutorial). Currently, that cannot be done, though it can be done in galleries. A name can be typed in the search field, but that brings up replies to the original message instead of just responses from the user I'm looking for. It would be great if the search field had an option that could apply just to a specific person.

So what you want is a way to specify the "author" of the message, and not all the respondants or people mentioning him in passing. Sounds useful!

...would be useful. For instance, the ability to search on username, title and/or message text. The ability to search for exact phrases. The ability to specify case sensitivity. The ability to exclude specified terms. The ability to search only for messages which have attachments, or links. The ability to exclude posts which are flagged with nudity and/or violence (or exclude those which aren't...) The ability to combine search terms with Boolean expressions. The ability to sort search results by date, by author, or by relevance. The ability to actually find what you're looking for - I can dream, can't I? :)

We all can dream. Until this site installs a truly functional search utility, the collective memory of all of us is Renderosity's chief and irreplaceable value! Carolly

They can get a good deal with sites like FreeFind or Google, to do custom search engines for this site, with all kinds of bells and whistles, booleans, phrases and whatnot. The CPU time is all on their remote servers, so the Renderosity servers don't take the kind of hit that the admins may be dreading like in the old days, when a proprietary search engine had to run off the site server CPUs, hence bogging down the whole site.

I'll be satisfied, for the meantime, with a search on Author. It's a function already available in the galleries, so the code is already there and it's just a matter of adding that capability to the forum search. I'd like all the other stuff, but I'll settle for a babystep that gives a little more capability than we already have.