I am guessing the search thing is a technical problem because it is so retarded I can't believe Lucky doesn't know about it already. I use google.

It should be number one priority to fix though...

>>The new "hide videos you have viewed" option does not stick as a preference. It works if you select it and click the "go" button, but it reverts to "hide none" option when you click on the Unsifted tab.

Not a bug. It wasn't designed to do that. I have now, however, made the selection persistent.

>>The submitter's initial vote is not being counted as a unique view, resulting in videos with a votes/views ratio > 1.0.

Not a bug. This gives newly submitted videos a fairly good chance of at least getting one or two views before slipping into obscurity.

>>[edit] Searching for duplicates has become a serious chore. As I noted in this comment, it is absurd that a search for "orca" does not find a video with the word "Orcas" in the title.

The prior complaint was that searching for a word like "orca" found words like "motorcades" which is why the search became very specific. I loosened it up a bit so it will be slightly more intelligent. However, this will make searches much more DB-intensive, so if it becomes too burdensome, it'll be reset.

>>[edit2] does not work in talk posts.

Added "strike" to available HTML tags for ST posts.

>>[edit3] Siftbot has learned how to lie.

He didn't lie. The post was sent to Sift Talk, but it was a discarded post so it wasn't showing up in the listing.

My problem may be related to these recent changes:

>> ^Lucky:
Not a bug. It wasn't designed to do that. I have now, however, made the selection persistent.


Now, on the "Unsifted Videos" page if I try to return the filter to "Hide None" from "Hide Videos I Have Viewed" it refuses to remove the filter no matter how many times I select "Hide None" and click go.

If you can understand what I mean from that mess.

>> ^lucky760:
>>The new "hide videos you have viewed" option does not stick as a preference. It works if you select it and click the "go" button, but it reverts to "hide none" option when you click on the Unsifted tab.
Not a bug. It wasn't designed to do that. I have now, however, made the selection persistent.

Cool. Didn't seem quite as useful the other way.


>>The submitter's initial vote is not being counted as a unique view, resulting in videos with a votes/views ratio > 1.0.
Not a bug. This gives newly submitted videos a fairly good chance of at least getting one or two views before slipping into obscurity.

Ah - that makes sense.


>>[edit] Searching for duplicates has become a serious chore. As I noted in this comment, it is absurd that a search for "orca" does not find a video with the word "Orcas" in the title.
The prior complaint was that searching for a word like "orca" found words like "motorcades" which is why the search became very specific. I loosened it up a bit so it will be slightly more intelligent. However, this will make searches much more DB-intensive, so if it becomes too burdensome, it'll be reset.

Yeah, I was afraid of that. Doing a full on regexp search would be too much load. Not sure what the specific change was, but maybe even just adding common endings (-ed, -ing, -s, -es) to search terms would do it? Or would allowing users to specify logical operators work better? I don't know, db search is definitely not my strong suit.


>>[edit2] does not work in talk posts.
Added "strike" to available HTML tags for ST posts.

Nice - thanks. Though I guess that is of limited use.


>>[edit3] Siftbot has learned how to lie.
He didn't lie. The post was sent to Sift Talk, but it was a discarded post so it wasn't showing up in the listing.

Oh, ok. tbh, I was half joking. I was a confused because it seemed to work for Pippy.

Awesomeness all round, Lucky. Thanks!

No, prob, jonny. FYI, you can always use <s> instead of <strike>.

I'll fix that non-clearing persistence bug, JohnnyMackers.