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  • why flarum search is bad and how to improve with a new extension?

Could someone throw knowledge on me.

With 50k+ posts (by 2023 it will grow by 150k posts) i am middle of the road now. Just for search feature i don't want to migrate to discourse.

If i need to migrate i would chose wordpress over discourse.

Non Latin languages support

Search + Related posts everything is linked to same thing.

I liked the related/similar answers concept on qoura i am expecting the same feature in flarum is it possible?

Should i just be patient till flarum v2.0? (Later 2022 or early 2023)

    Hari Is there any reason why you haven't considered blomstra/search (https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30404-blomstra-search-an-elasticsearch-fulltext-search-extension)? I honestly don't have that much experience with these search related issues in Flarum (I know of its existence, but it's not something that is affecting my use cases) so I can't help you as much as I'd like to, but Elasticsearch is a very well known enterprise wide option, in fact I have some contact with that search option because I manage several Magento instances, so its performance in Flarum should be pretty good.

        Darkle it's not working for non Latin languages like Telugu, Tamil, Hindi.

        @clarkwinkelmann could you please go through this Hari and tell a solution

            does the develop team want to improve this function? do they have a plan?

            Is the issue here that search is limited to at least three characters? Because if that's the case we could easily make that configurable, even an extension could do that.

              Hari If i need to migrate i would chose wordpress over discourse.

              Going little off topic, but don't go on WP route. All their forum softwares/extensions are slow and sluggish. WP is great blogging software, but only that. I made that mistake by switching from SMF and it nearly killed my otherwise very active and numerous community. Luckily, Flarum saved us.

                luceos If I remember correctly it would be changing the table from MyIASM to InnoDB, which can take a very, very long time on larger tables/databases and then it would also require re-indexing the fulltext search (which would also take a long time)

                • Hari replied to this.

                    Hari Have you tried it if it works? I think it would be a good thing to document in the resources tag.

                      SychO currently flarum using InnoDB? Or flarum test environment using innoDB?

                          Hari never mind actually, Flarum has used InnoDB by default for far longer than that. I just investigated our codebase and there is a bug preventing languages like Telugu from being searched, I've posted a fix here: flarum/framework3385

                              SychO thanks for the quick fix. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Like Shasha said this gonna be the biggest PR in flarum's history for sure.

                              Please give me the test environment URL I would like to test, as I can see you have mentioned that you did these changes locally, could you deploy it somewhere.

                              I will take a few songs lyrics and perform a search

                              Telugu

                              ఒకటే జననం ఒకటే మరణం
                              ఒకటే గమనం ఒకటే గమ్యం
                              గెలుపు పొందె వరకూ అలుపు లేదు మనకు..
                              బతుకు అంటె గెలుపూ గెలుపుకొరకె బ్రతుకు..
                              కష్టాలు రానీ కన్నీళ్ళు రానీ
                              ఏమైన గానీ ఎదురేది రానీ
                              ఓడిపోవద్దు రాజీపడొద్దు
                              నిద్ర నీకొద్దు నీకేది హద్దు

                              Hindi

                              किसी को सपना लगे तू … किसी को बहती हवा किसी को बस बातों में, करे पल में यहाँ वहाँ किसी के सौ झूठ सुन ले, किसी का सच्च भी गुनाह किसी का बस यादों में, करे हलचल सारा जहां टी यामो मी टी यमो तू छाँव है, तू धुप है टी यामो मी टी यमो तेरे हजारों रूप हैं

                              Kannada

                              (ಗ) ನಿನ್ನ ಜೊತೆ ನನ್ನ ಕಥೆ
                              ಒಂದೊಂದು ಸಾಲು ಜೀವಿಸಿದೆ
                              ನನ್ನ ಜೊತೆ ನಿನ್ನ ಕಥೆ
                              ಬೇರೊಂದು ಲೋಕ ಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಿದೆ

                              ಎಂದು ಹೀಗೆ ಆಗೇ ಇಲ್ಲ
                              ಏನು ಇದರ ಸೂಚನೆ
                              ನೂರು ವಿಷತ ಇದ್ದರೂನು
                              ನಿನ್ನದೊಂದೇ ಯೋಚನೆ

                              Malyalam

                              ഇന്‍റര്‍നെറ്റിനെ ആകമാനം പിടിച്ചുലച്ച ഗാനമാണ് വെളിപാടിന്‍റെ പുസ്തകം എന്ന ചിത്രത്തലെ എന്‍റമ്മേടെ ജിമിക്കി കമ്മല്‍ എന്ന് തുടങ്ങുന്ന ഗാനം. പാട്ടും അതിനൊത്ത താളച്ചുവടുകളും കൊണ്ട് കേരളം മാത്രമല്ല, മറ്റ് സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങളിലും ഈ പാട്ട് അലകളുണ്ടാക്കി. പാട്ടിന്‍റെ മുഴുവൻ വരികൾ ഇതാ..

                              Tamil

                              நியூயார்க் நகரம்
                              உறங்கும் நேரம் தனிமை
                              அடர்ந்தது பனியும் படர்ந்தது
                              கப்பல் இறங்கியே காற்றும்
                              கரையில் நடந்தது

                              நான்கு கண்ணாடி
                              சுவர்களுக்குள்ளே நானும்
                              மெழுகுவர்த்தியும் தனிமை
                              தனிமையோ கொடுமை
                              கொடுமையோ

                              Sinhala

                              ෆ්ලාරම් සඳහා සිංහල භාෂා ඇසුරුම

                              https://discuss.flarum.org/d/27076-sinhala-language-pack

                                  Hari the pr is merged, not sure but probably you can install Flarum dev master locally into your pc?

                                  • Hari replied to this.

                                      Justoverclock how to install dev-master, what is the command? is the below command correct?

                                      composer create-project flarum/flarum dev master

                                      Edit:

                                      git clone git@github.com:flarum/flarum.git <target directory>
cd <target directory>

                                      https://discuss.flarum.org/d/9829-installing-flarum-dev-master

                                      looks like not easy. can i try this? https://demo.flarum.site/

                                          Hari The dev-master demo Nightly (https://nightly.flarum.site/) is under 6f72c7f not sure if it is updated or not.
                                          If you prefer local, I think the easiest thing to do would be:

                                          composer create-project flarum/flarum:"@"dev" Sorry, forget it, it's not like that to install it locally.