Member searching gets speed boost
With close to 5000 registered people, our member search had gotten slow to the point of unusable. Last Thursday we released some speed improvements that make finding your fellow Connexions authors much nicer.
New Features
Along with the improved speed, we added a few new features:
- Quoting
- If you know the full name of the person, you can enclose it in quotation marks. That way your search for "Bob Smith" will return one member, and not everyone named "Bob" or "Smith"
- Wildcard Substitution
- Can't remember how to spell that last name? You can subtitute an asterisk (*) character in the search ("Bob S*"), although you can only use it in the middle or end of words, not the start
- Sorted search results
- We finally return the names in a sane order, sorted by last name
