Seriously…what are you thinking???
The Corona search utility has always been useless, but Google worked great to find related threads for help, problem solving.
Now Corona search is still basically useless IMO, and every Google link redirects to the Forum front page!
Frustrated is an understatement.
You can’t go back to the old forum format soon enough IMO.
Hi @xnailbender. We appreciate your thoughts on the matter and we understand your frustration, but our old forum search was broken and everyone lothed it and going to Google to search our forums was considered a very bad thing to do. Our forums had other problems too. Search now works reasonably well from the new forums, but unfortunately the URL structure changed. I’m not sure how much you know about how web servers worked, but it would be an impossible task to setup redirects for every individual forum thread.
I would recommend giving the new internal search a try and see if it functions for you and eventually Google will pick up the right things.
Rob, the amount of knowledge, working examples, solutions, etc that have been literally thrown away is not only a tragedy, it’s simply disrespectful to the entire community of devs that have contributed their time an effort to support Corona. Corona will NEVER get back that info unless re-linked somehow and made available with the horrible/pathitic internal search functions of this site.
What a mess…
We migrated the previous content. That doesn’t mean that it went perfect. If you know specific posts that didn’t survive, let us know and we will try to find them.
Hi @xnailbender. We appreciate your thoughts on the matter and we understand your frustration, but our old forum search was broken and everyone lothed it and going to Google to search our forums was considered a very bad thing to do. Our forums had other problems too. Search now works reasonably well from the new forums, but unfortunately the URL structure changed. I’m not sure how much you know about how web servers worked, but it would be an impossible task to setup redirects for every individual forum thread.
I would recommend giving the new internal search a try and see if it functions for you and eventually Google will pick up the right things.
Rob, the amount of knowledge, working examples, solutions, etc that have been literally thrown away is not only a tragedy, it’s simply disrespectful to the entire community of devs that have contributed their time an effort to support Corona. Corona will NEVER get back that info unless re-linked somehow and made available with the horrible/pathitic internal search functions of this site.
What a mess…
We migrated the previous content. That doesn’t mean that it went perfect. If you know specific posts that didn’t survive, let us know and we will try to find them.