Install a search function in the Blog and Forum?
| Case number: | 699969-988453 |
| Topic: | General |
| Opened by: | BootsMcGraw |
| Status: | Resolved |
| Assigned: | admin |
| Priority: | 4 |
| Type: | Suggestion |
| Opened on: | Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 20:55 |
| Last modified: | Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 03:18 |
We have a search function here in Feedback, but not in the Blog or the Forum.
A newbie wanted some hard evidence of things FoldIt has achieved or attempted to achieve in the real world. I wanted to give some examples of how some of the other players had designed and folded proteins that could be tested and used. I remember reading that Brick and Vakobo both had proteins of theirs highlighted in the blog; but I couldn't effectively sift through umpteen pages of blogs and still keep the new player's attention.
If we had a search function in the blog, I could have just typed the names of the players, and I would have found the blog entries talking about their achievements.
So how about it, FoldIt onwers? Is this do-able?
You can find many things on the Foldit site without even being logged in by using google.
Try a google search with the keywords "foldit bootsmcgraw" for example. If you don't like
what is so publicly accessible, please comment in the Foldit Privacy Policy Forum at http://fold.it/portal/node/992558
I am terribly aware of Google and every search engine that's been in existence since I discovered the Internet in 1995. Rather than having to sift out irrelevant links, it would be more expedient to have an in-house search engine that gives me only the results I want.
As far as privacy goes, I starred in several adult videos some fifteen years ago, which have been subsequently broadcast from one end of the planet to another. It does not bother me. Strangers knowing my thoughts on protein folding hardly concerns me.
Well, if you are getting other sites, you can type site:fold.it and then a space then type what you are looking for. This way it only gives you links on the foldit site. I agree though, an in-house search engine would be nice.
| Status: Open » Resolved |
We got it!!
We have the in-house search function I asked for. I was able to find the post about Vakobo's designed anti-influenza protein in about two seconds of searching:
http://fold.it/portal/node/987637
This may be a minor addition; but it will also prove handy for things like looking for duplicate feedbacks.
Closing this feedback. Mission accomplished.
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Bump. I would still like to see this implemented.