Suggestion: Also search by username

Started by fernewelten, Thu 23/01/2020 22:45:26

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fernewelten

Hi,

A suggestion: Currently, on the AGS Games page, if you put "fernewelten" into the "Game search" box, you don't get any hits. However, if you put "Peter Bouillon" in, you do. Seems that the database query only works for real names, not for usernames. Similarly, the "members" subsection of the board offers lots of different ways for searching members, but the username isn't among them AFAICS.

Would it be hard to put that in as an additional option?


AGA

Search works on the name you actually use in the 'author' field on your game's entry.  If you want it to match your username, just put "Peter 'fernewelten' Bouillon".  Also searching by people's usernames could get very complicated, and would take me a while to implement.

As for the second point, just click Members then Search for Members.  Search by username is one of the default options.  People's real names aren't stored in the forums, so you couldn't possibly search by those.

AGA

Quote from: fernewelten on Thu 23/01/2020 22:45:26
Would it be hard to put that in as an additional option?

Tada!  The old way also still works.

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