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updates to threads i'm subscribed to in a certain 'special' sub forum aren't showing up in my usercp for some reason

Do forum subscriptions actually work? As in, do they work for non-special forums at all anyway?

still having this problem, was it because my subscription ran out?

Why has the posh food thread been renamed to Posh Food/Food Porn

I mean really? it's not all about pictures of amazing dishes it's about talking about the restaurants and reviews etc

Can it be changed back please. Feels a bit too readers wives with the current title

I changed it after it appeared in the log of search terms that resulted in zero hits, but I knew we had a thread for it.

I've done this with a few threads (inserted the bad search term into the thread title so people can find it), but this is the first time anyone has noticed in a long while.

I can change it back, but then people won't find it again.

is drunk / sketch the same person?

not this is necessarily a problem, except when bumping their for sale threads

^^if only we had some way of adding metadata to threads to add weight to their appearance in search rankings.

/ubertroll

^^^ Food hipsters, they like love the obscurity! ;)

is drunk / sketch the same person?

not this is necessarily a problem, except when bumping their for sale threads

Yes, they are.

He's been warned.

I can change it back, but then people won't find it again.

Please do, the thread has plenty activity so it won't fall into obscurity.

Out of interest, why wouldn't it come up if you search for 'food'? I don't get the logic of having to put a word such as 'porn' in it to make it appear in searches (and for porn???).

I don't know why people search the way that they do, but perhaps it's cyclist habit to extend "bike porn" into "anything porn".

I just look at logs of terms that result in zero hits, and if they weren't outliers, and we have threads that deal with it: I edit the thread title.

Example outlier searches with zero results:
"your just a grass with a badge" < who knows!?
"28h front hub miche gold" < could be many threads

And then there's higher hit ones such as "food porn", which had 7 searches last week (for a non-bike related thread that's pretty high).

I don't try and force all searches to conform, instead I change thread titles to match how people are looking for it.

Actually, that first outlier does have a direct thread match but with the correct spelling:
http://www.lfgss.com/thread18650.html

That was back in 1968 though...

Still don't quite understand, but that's fine. Thanks for putting the thread title back to what it's really about.

What's there not to understand?

If there was a thread called "banana", but people were actually searching for "yellow phallic fruit" and not finding any result, then given we have a "banana" thread, shouldn't I help them find it?

I think websites should help people find what they're looking for, and if you have that opinion then you have 2 choices: force all people to search within a reduced vocabulary or, expand the vocabulary that describes threads until it adequately covers the most common searches.

That is what tags did, but alas.

I changed it after it appeared in the log of search terms that resulted in zero hits, but I knew we had a thread for it.

Tags...

Is LFGSS the most active cycling forum on the internet? It seems to be full of updates/ new posts much more than other forums I visit.

Tags...

Oh, repost.

It's not bigger/more active than bikeforums.net, but depending on time of year we are one of the Top 5 cycling forums. We get over taken by a few places during the TdF and height of summer.

Ah but that's a world wide forum. I thought this forum appealed to us Brits more than anything, which is probably the reason I like most of the humour.

I changed it after it appeared in the log of search terms that resulted in zero hits, but I knew we had a thread for it.

I've done this with a few threads (inserted the bad search term into the thread title so people can find it), but this is the first time anyone has noticed in a long while.

I can change it back, but then people won't find it again.

but who searches food porn???

maybe change food porn to restaurants.. ie Posh Food / Restaurants

at present it's akin to altering a title of "Grammar thread: Correct and Proper usage" and whacking "innit" on the end

^ this.

I understood you, just got thrown with "grass with a badge" ...

^^^ food hipsters, they like love the obesity! ;)

ftfy

If 'porn' is the answer, then why doesn't every thread end in 'porn'?

Don't see the point. A banana isn't a phallic yellow fruit to everyone - I suspect most people would actually search for 'banana'.

Ha! Just quickly and mentally added the word porn to a few random thread titles. You could be on to something here :-)

Ah but that's a world wide forum. I thought this forum appealed to us Brits more than anything, which is probably the reason I like most of the humour.

Yeah, we're the largest city based cycling forum in the world.

One of the Top 5 in Europe all year round.

And we enter into the Top 5 globally when it's not peak summer.

but who searches food porn???

maybe change food porn to restaurants.. ie Posh Food / Restaurants

at present it's akin to altering a title of "Grammar thread: Correct and Proper usage" and whacking "innit" on the end

I'm not sure who searches for these things, I don't log identifiable data like that. So I don't know who searches for anything.

But, if there was a repeated pattern of searches that showed that people were searching for the grammar thread with an exact phrase that ended in the word 'innit', then yes I'd probably change it.

Generally, most days... I modify anywhere between 5 and 50 thread titles.

Mostly it's to remove superfluous punctuation, shouting, but I also correct mis-spellings, fix grammar and occasionally add and remove words that help the thread be discovered.

As I said oooh... almost 5 years ago, the content is yours, but the thread titles belong to me. As in, to keep the place readable, usable (including searchable) and fair (non-shouty classifieds), I edit thread titles. Lots of them.

Excuse if a silly question - but how would you know if given a repeated pattern of searches with the word 'innit', that they were looking for the grammar thread?

Are there not bots hunting down porn and boosting the search results? Or is everyone that desperate?