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I cant even pronounce his current name.

Velocity Boy forevs

is it

a) ve-low-cee-oh
b) ve-lo-chi-o

c) doive.

VB,

it used to be that when i clicked on a thread that new posts were added, Id go to the last unread post.
For some reason now, it sends me to at least one post passedthis, so now i am missing things.
Is it possible to correct this?

Would it be possible to alter the search to include plurals automatically?
So that when you search for eg. 'sportive' you also get results for 'sportives'.

Also, is there a way of distinguishing, when you look at New Posts, whether a thread is new in the sense that new stuff has happened since you last looked, or new in the sense that you haven't looked at that thread at all? If there isn't, then that would be nice.

VB,

it used to be that when i clicked on a thread that new posts were added, Id go to the last unread post.
For some reason now, it sends me to at least one post passedthis, so now i am missing things.
Is it possible to correct this?

Nothing has changed, I suspect you keep hitting pages that have images or videos that haven't loaded and then when they start loading it moves it around in your browser (as the page length increases with each newly loaded element).

Would it be possible to alter the search to include plurals automatically?
So that when you search for eg. 'sportive' you also get results for 'sportives'.

Also, is there a way of distinguishing, when you look at New Posts, whether a thread is new in the sense that new stuff has happened since you last looked, or new in the sense that you haven't looked at that thread at all? If there isn't, then that would be nice.

That would be a neat trick, but MySQL search isn't clever enough to allow me to do that.

In the new system I'm planning on making the searches phonetic, so mis-spellings are caught "Sportif" sounds like "Sportiv" and plurals still get a good match based on phonetics even though the exact match would rate higher.

And for determining whether it's read or not: bold text on white background = unread (new posts since last read), and grey background = read.

The unread/read thing only works when you're logged in.

can you really account for forruns and provincials mangling of our mother tongue?

Not to mention Scoble.

can you really account for forruns and provincials mangling of our mother tongue?

Yeah.

The most primitive English based phonetic algorithm is Soundex. But there are many others that work with most Western languages pretty well. For other languages I'll fall back on basic string compare.

^^^^ aha, noted. Thanks

Yeah.

The most primitive English based phonetic algorithm is Soundex. But there are many others that work with most Western languages pretty well. For other languages I'll fall back on basic string compare.

Not to mention Scoble.

If it can equate nay, neigh and nerg I will be amazed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphone#Double_Metaphone

That's what I will probably use.

The key to such things is to recognise that most dialects and accents are based on vowel changes and difference in pronunciation of vowels... so chuck away the vowels.

Then identify the key consonants that shape the word, and certain sequences of consonants can be shortened to a replacement consonant.

In the wikipedia example, the word Schmidt is shortened to XMT, where Smith yields SM0 and a secondary match of XMT. Because XMT matches both... a search for Schmidt would return a lower match on the word Smith... but at least it found it.

In the example requested above, sportives would yield SPTV and so would sportive... it would be considered an exact match even though they vary due to pluralisation.

If it can equate nay, neigh and nerg I will be amazed.

It would likely match the first two, and not the last.

But therein is the fun with search... do multiple searches, assign "match" scores, and order the results by score.

Exact matches come higher than vague matches... but the vague match should be included, and as we do exact matches today they aren't.

Impressive.

So it can cope with yokels and immigrants, but not Scoble?

Scoble isn't the only one to be nerged.

Besides, Scoble uses English words... so that wouldn't impact search at all. It's whether the reader understands how the words are strung together afterwards that matters, but that's nothing to do with search algorithms.

Life is struggling to cope with Scoble

I don't like vb's new avatar as it looks too much like lynx.

Also all those with an animal on a yellow background lok the same to me too...

#avatarracist

can someone please nuke that link to a defunct Bournemouth forum abandoned by fixie skidders of yore who are now onto vlogging theyre super interesting lives all over the meganet

Haven't seen the bournemouth and poole riders thread surface for a while :(

they are around, I see them mainly around the university, but the lads who were doing polo and all that long gone.

please nuke this its rubbish
http://www.lfgss.com/thread84569.html

chatting to jimbilly about getting a few peeps down for a long weekend of tearing round the purbecks or inland over summer. hard part is making it all line up in terms of timing and weather =/

i thought velocio did not like general chatter in this thread?

will have to report 6pt

:(

the full size version of this starts to move and generate colour if you look at it for a while, or if you try to follow a line across the image

under the influence of LSD it turns into a full on rave light show

Now thats an avatar, can someone do that for me?