search by username in PM

[Vladimir Bardiyan]

Sorry if this topic has already been discussed. Only I have a problem with the search in personal messages?

 

[Adriano Faria]

What a pity! It was removed in 4.4. 😣

[Vladimir Bardiyan]

It seems to me that it worked in 4.4. Stopped working in 4.4.1

[Adriano Faria]

Yes, I remember using it on 4.4.0 here on IPS. And a bug reported (not sure if in 4.3.6 or 4.4.0 Beta) is still there:

Broken pagination.

[bfarber]

The option to search by username did not actually work reliably and correctly in all cases, and is SUPER performance heavy. This isn't a big deal necessarily on small sites, but on sites with millions of PMs, just performing a search in the messenger could take the site down. So it was removed - if it doesn't work correctly AND it's a performance hog, it's not worth it.

@Adriano Faria feel free to submit a ticket if you have found a bug.

[AtariAge]

Ugh, being able to search by username is ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT when you have a large forum and potentially thousands of conversations in your inbox (I have nearly 30,000, but that's obviously an aberration).  Surely there is a way to support searching by username efficiently.  Just pulling out the feature entirely is very disappointing to see, as this was one of the things I was looking forward to when I get my forum onto 4.x soon. 

[Vladimir Bardiyan]

Now I find it very difficult to find the right conversation. I did not know that they would remove this function. Otherwise, I would have written the username in advance in the message body.

[Ilya Hoilik]

1 hour ago, bfarber said:

This isn't a big deal necessarily on small sites, but on sites with millions of PMs, just performing a search in the messenger could take the site down.

In this case, search by member name should be configurable in the AdminCP, allowing administrators to enable or disable this feature.

[Ramsesx]

3 hours ago, AtariAge said:

and potentially thousands of conversations in your inbox (I have nearly 30,000,

Sadly the IPS conversation system is only usable if a user has less than ~100 messages.

[Vladimir Bardiyan]

nevertheless it worked before! I have always used search by user. Now you need to scroll and carefully watch. ;(

[AtariAge]

7 hours ago, Ramsesx said:

Sadly the IPS conversation system is only usable if a user has less than ~100 messages.

Why is that?  I'm not a big fan of the changes they made versus 3.4.x, but I haven't used the 4.x conversation too extensively yet. 

[DSystem]

The user search in AdminCP also had modifications that degraded the results.

Research continues to be a problem in IPS and each version worsens results in return for performance.

I am in favor of more configurable searches where the administrator can configure according to the needs of the communities.

[Vladimir Bardiyan]

It was possible to warn that search by user will no longer be available.