in reply to New Feature For Simple Search

Well... We could simply make it stop working. Would that be enough of a shock? ;-)
But seriously, why is using simple search so bad? It currently serves two distinct purposes, and one of them is critical to proper functioning of the site — namely, being able to link to a specific node by title. The other purpose — a simple by-title search — is clearly something that could be done, arguably better, by Super Search. Making simple search differentiate between these two cases more strongly is probably not a bad idea.

FWIW, I submitted a "patch" to the relevant code, but it has not been accepted (yet). It automatically re-submits the search via Super Search whenever there would be multiple title matches (but no exact matches).

Update: The patch has been applied. Simple Search now calls Super Search unless there is one (or more) exact title match. See Tidings.

Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.

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Re^2: New Feature For Simple Search
by Zen (Deacon) on Jan 05, 2009 at 15:02 UTC
    What needs to happen is a promotion to 'god' for a trusted, motivated person. Most of our gods, if not all, seem too busy to take care of some of the more pressing issues on this site. My 2 cents.
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      a trusted, motivated person

      There's the rub. Motivated people are rare, and trusted people far rarer. The intersection of the two sets is vanishingly small.

      Even so, some gods are fairly active in site improvement initiatives. Corion deserves special recognition for the work he's done in trying to upgrade the database and the version of mod_perl used by PerlMonks. He's also been very good about applying my patches. Corion++.

      Between the mind which plans and the hands which build, there must be a mediator... and this mediator must be the heart.
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        Maybe we need a sign over the suggestion box. I know Corion is on here a lot contributing. This is no slight to those who do contribute. Just throwing out there that if things are deteriorating, it might be time to search for more personnel. And there is a problem on this site related to performance and usability that we'd all like to see addressed, and I say that in as polite words as I can. As it stands now, we are circumventing perlmonks to get at perlmonks content, and I think that is what the OP is pointing out.
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