Give me perms to the forums

[argonian 14254]

The archive is unsearchable, which means like 90% of RP threads from over idk 2 years ago can take hours to find and are totally inaccessible if the author is unknown. If you wanna find threads you don't know of, e.g, you wanna find the earliest mentions of "Haelun'or" for a history post, or the original lore for Bardmancy, it's also a case of GG well-played, you cannot. Beyond that there's glitchy UI stuff like a perpetual horizontal scrollbar on my laptop - which is not a biggie obv but I'd like to fix that too for free so why would you say no.

 

I think the admins keep saying no to me every 6 months when I offer because they don't trust me but there's like literally 0 risk if I just get access to a repo and have to have any PRs or whatever be approved. They just love stagnancy like algae in a pond.

I mean it could be an Invision problem too but then they should be letting us know how their support ticket w Invision is doing instead of just letting the forums be broken like this.

[_RoyalCrafter_ 5285]

i trust argonian with my first born son, give him the forums.

[Onnensr 1908]

he's really funny so he should be able to do this. I put my trust in lizard

[xDK 1205]

On 3/21/2025 at 11:44 PM, argonian said:

The archive is unsearchable, which means like 90% of RP threads from over idk 2 years ago can take hours to find and are totally inaccessible if the author is unknown. If you wanna find threads you don't know of, e.g, you wanna find the earliest mentions of "Haelun'or" for a history post, or the original lore for Bardmancy, it's also a case of GG well-played, you cannot. Beyond that there's glitchy UI stuff like a perpetual horizontal scrollbar on my laptop - which is not a biggie obv but I'd like to fix that too for free so why would you say no.

 

I think the admins keep saying no to me every 6 months when I offer because they don't trust me but there's like literally 0 risk if I just get access to a repo and have to have any PRs or whatever be approved. They just love stagnancy like algae in a pond.

I mean it could be an Invision problem too but then they should be letting us know how their support ticket w Invision is doing instead of just letting the forums be broken like this.

Hello, sorry for the late reply.
 

I wish we had a simple fix. Unfortunately, Invision Community stores archived posts in a separate table (forums_archive_posts) that the "built-in" search engine never touches. There’s no quick settings or quick toggle to include it. The reason we Archived everything to begin with, is to avoid having to load the 2 million posts from the normal forum MySQL table, every time you open the forums.

The only way is to Develop a custom plugin or script that pulls results from the archive table and injects them into the search results. Which I am currently still working on, but have yet to find a good way of doing it without breaking the Search. I know this is not as straightforward as flipping a switch. But given the platform’s architecture, there really is no simpler path right now. If you’d like to explore a plugin solution yourself, I’m happy to help with that.

[argonian 14254]

On 4/23/2025 at 2:12 PM, xDK said:

Hello, sorry for the late reply.
 

I wish we had a simple fix. Unfortunately, Invision Community stores archived posts in a separate table (forums_archive_posts) that the "built-in" search engine never touches. There’s no quick settings or quick toggle to include it. The reason we Archived everything to begin with, is to avoid having to load the 2 million posts from the normal forum MySQL table, every time you open the forums.

The only way is to Develop a custom plugin or script that pulls results from the archive table and injects them into the search results. Which I am currently still working on, but have yet to find a good way of doing it without breaking the Search. I know this is not as straightforward as flipping a switch. But given the platform’s architecture, there really is no simpler path right now. If you’d like to explore a plugin solution yourself, I’m happy to help with that.

Push comes to shove, we could always have a separate way of searching the archives.

 

Incredibly dumb that Invision loads everything when you open the forums though, wtf? I mean, if the front-end can handle displaying the archives and the normal content, why does it have to be so spergy about how it loads it in the backend? Cringe.

 

Anyway, archive search is hugely important for lore heads and forum historians, and honestly the archives are borderline worthless when unsearchable, so I'd be happy to help in any way I could. 👍