Any question answered...

In this case, Helor.

https://www.lfgss.com/search/?q=Helor+type:comment+sort:date

As others have said, it defaults to searching in just the titles of threads, you need to check the "comments" checkbox (or uncheck the "Title matched search terms" checkbox") and search again.

the search on here is pretty good under the hood

Documented here:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/253146/

Thank you. Exactly what I was hoping existed somewhere.

It is. Velocio has explicitly said that every page you load is a search result. Also, the search on here is pretty good under the hood

Pfffft if you want to look at it like that. To me it's like saying VW's business is robot factories or forging or whatever. It's involved at a technical level, it's not the product.

If search - and search as how punters probably understand it, i.e. typing what I'm interested in a search box and expecting to get relevant stuff back- was central to the user experience we wouldn't be here explaining this

As others have said, it defaults to searching in just the titles of threads, you need to check the "comments" checkbox (or uncheck the "Title matched search terms" checkbox") and search again.

Documented here:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/2531­46/

Oh, that's poor value! How much did you pay for it?

I pay about $8.55 a month.

Nothing - discounting the pre microcosm membership stuff and the donations and some useful content I’ve contributed.

But that’s fine because if someone asked me to rank forum features in terms of what I’d pay for, the ‘typing stuff into a text box and getting a great set of results and suggested next steps back’ experience would be pretty low on the list because it’s not really a priority when thinking about how to get value from a forum *. Worse, it’s hard to do well and potentially a massive distraction from the actual stuff needed to facilitate communication and moderation.

* tester is right when he says search is vital to the system, but then it’s not really helpful in this context - pretty much any online publishing system can be boiled down to some code asking a database to find something for it so it can return it to whatever user requested it.

Is the file upload feature also good "under the hood"?

Anyone know of any shops in London that stock a range of ripstop / waterproof fabrics - the kind you might make frame bags and bikepacking bags from?? I've tried haberdasheries but no luck so far.

You might have luck at a chandler

If search - and search as how punters probably understand it, i.e. typing what I'm interested in a search box and expecting to get relevant stuff back- was central to the user experience we wouldn't be here explaining this

I actually think 90% of the confusion would go away instantly if it searched comments rather than thread titles by default.

Is the file upload feature also good "under the hood"?

Yes, in the sense that hosting images as attachments on lfgss is much more reliable than embedding them from some here today, gone tomorrow pic host, and you don't get tracked by the data miners or lose image visibility due to "improvements" at the host which make URIs volatile.

Obviously it would be even better if it actually worked first time most of the time on most browsers, but it's good once you've finally managed to find a combination of browser and phase of the moon which actually gets your pix onto the server 🙂

I actually think 90% of the confusion would go away instantly if it searched comments rather than thread titles by default.

Yeah, for very specific terms like the brand of coffee grinder that kicked this off, broadening the initial search to everything or at least titles and comments would have helped.

Could be the searching all comments is really ‘expensive’ or the relevancy is bad for any search that isn’t coffee grinder brand specific so it’s discouraged by the existing default.

Choosing forks, should I go for 20mm or 15mm through axle?

Depends on the application, sounds like you're after MTB forks? If so, 15mm is pretty standard, 20mm are rather outdated.

DH -> 20mm
Fancy new flatmount road forks -> 12mm
Everything else -> 15mm, either 100mm OLD standard or 110mm OLD boost.

20mm are rather outdated

But also inherently superior to the 15mm system. If the fork you want is available in either format, go for 20mm, but don't compromise your fork just to get 20mm; it's better, but not that much better.

But is 15mm boost better than 20mm, given the wider flange spacing?

Unless it’s a 100mm wheel with boost end caps :)

is 15mm boost better than 20mm, given the wider flange spacing?

The extra rotor side flange spacing on a Boost hub isn't as much of an advantage as the clamped axle of 20mm is.

So I was right when boost was new in saying that boost front hubs are pointless. Yay.

Guess the next conundrum is why 150/157mm rear hubs always have such a wide gap between the rotor and rotor-side flange...

I was right when boost was new in saying that boost front hubs are pointless

Boost front hubs are not pointless; they make great rear fixed hubs for use with road cranks 🙂

Seriously, the extra flange spacing isn't a bad thing, it's just that it's only a very small good thing.

next conundrum is why 150/157mm rear hubs always have such a wide gap between the rotor and rotor-side flange

Because you don't need to move the NDS flange any further out, all that does is bring back the dish you were trying to minimise by widening the hub to 150mm in the first place.

Anyone on here who lives in Wood Green Outer Zone parking zone (Ladder roads north of Beresford, West Green Area, Noel, Park, bottom half of Bounds Green Road, etc https://www.haringey.gov.uk/parking-roads-and-travel/parking/controlled-parking-zones-cpzs/map-controlled-parking-zones-cpzs-haringey ) that I can buy a parking permit from (need about 4 hours or a day permit)?

It's rather difficult to get one if you don't yet live there. Cheers

@cake might be able to sort you out.