listing the threads which I've posted/replied.

[Sudharsan Govindarajan]

How to list all the threads which I have started or replied? I tried a search with my name and then with my User ID. Both produced only 4 results. Is there any other way to do this?
-sudharsan

[Thomas Paul]

Save this link:
http://www.coderanch.com/forums/posts/listByUser/00032649
You can find it by clicking on the little profile icon next to any of your posts and then clicking on the "view recent posts" line.

[Sudharsan Govindarajan]

TP,
Thanks! I know this. But it shows me only the 50 recent posts I have made. I wanted to see all the posts i have made.
thanks
Sudharsan

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Click on the "search" link (top right corner of the page) under the "Post New Topic" button. Hit "search". For this forum, that will take you here. Put your user number (32649), not your name, into the bottom search field. If you search on your name, it will look for your name in the text of the post (it doesn't recognize your name on the side).

You will have to do this for each forum separately, though.
[ January 26, 2003: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Alternatively, you can mark each thread that you start to notify you by email when someone posts to that thread. This only works for threads that you start, however.
[ January 26, 2003: Message edited by: Marilyn de Queiroz ]

[Sudharsan Govindarajan]

Originally posted by Marilyn de Queiroz:
Click on the "search" link (top right corner of the page) under the "Post New Topic" button. Hit "search". For this forum, that will take you here. Put your user number (32649), not your name, into the bottom search field. If you search on your name, it will look for your name in the text of the post (it doesn't recognize your name on the side).

Thanks Marilyn! I was using the general search button found at the bottom of the page and was hoping to see all the threads.

You will have to do this for each forum separately, though.

Hmm.. UBB needs a lot of feature upgrades..
thanks
Sudharsan

[Cindy Glass]

The google search at the bottom of the page only shows the pages that google chooses to cache - and it does not do ALL of them.
The UBB search allows an "all forum" search, but with so many users that feature was crashing the server several times a day, so we turned it off.
Now if you can think of a way for us to have LOTS and LOTS of money for extra servers and whatnot, then we could consider turning that feature back on. Got any money laying around?

[Mani Ram]

What about starting a background thread when somebody initiates a search on all forums?
This thread can be run at a low-priority, and the results can be mailed to the user later.
I don't know to what extent you can customize the UBB, but if this can be done, it it better than nothing.

[Sudharsan Govindarajan]

How much do we need for this? Can't we make a public request for Donation citing this reason? Wo'nt that be a great reason to donate? ;-)

[Thomas Paul]

Originally posted by R Manivannan:
What about starting a background thread when somebody initiates a search on all forums?
This thread can be run at a low-priority, and the results can be mailed to the user later.
I don't know to what extent you can customize the UBB, but if this can be done, it it better than nothing.

The forum is written in Perl. Starting background threads in Perl is beyond my knowledge.

[John Lee]

I am proud Javaranch is such a great place!

[Sudharsan Govindarajan]

What is the cost of maintaining these forums and the JR site, per month? I'm jus' curious.
-sudharsan

[Cindy Glass]

I don't know. You would have to get an answer from Paul Wheaton.

[Sudharsan Govindarajan]

Paul!
Are you listening?

[Cindy Glass]

I think that he is rather busy trying to deal with one particular other user :roll: .
Did you miss our donation drive when we needed to get new memory? Lot's of folks chipped in to help. It was really heart warming to see.
It also kept Brenda from murdering Paul when he swipes the grocery money to pay the server support bill .

[Sudharsan Govindarajan]

Originally posted by Cindy Glass:
I think that he is rather busy trying to deal with one particular other user :roll: .

Whoz that?

Did you miss our donation drive when we needed to get new memory? Lot's of folks chipped in to help. It was really heart warming to see.

Oh! I think i missed it. How can I donate if i live outside the US?
thanks
sudharsan

[John Lee]

Originally posted by Sudharsan G'rajan:

Oh! I think i missed it. How can I donate if i live outside the US?
thanks
sudharsan

Credit card, or 40-ib bag rice will do.