Ok... I'm going to say the quiet part out loud.
10Could we maybe… umm… possibly… make the community forum a little… how do I say this… more searchable? I’ve been here 10 years and I often forget where I left comments from yesteryear that I occasionally would like to recollect. I can pay with virtual high-fives.
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Click on your user name in this post and all your comments, meh face clicks, poll responses are on that page if you scroll down. You can even filter it. Then if you click on that post it takes you to the forum post. Hope that helps!
@mandirose Isn’t that just the past 30 days’ worth? How about the 2000 days before that?
@mandirose @shahnm Right, it’s only the past 30 days.
@mandirose @shahnm It used to be longer than 30 days I swear… but yeah I’m bummed that it’s only 30 days. Can you try searching your name and maybe a keyword in the search function?
@mandirose @mbersiam @shahnm You can, but it’s tedious and kind of limited.
@mbersiam Try my answer to @capnjb below but put your username in the quotations instead. Leaving the “@” out yields more results. So your search would be:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ameh.com+“mbersiam”
Pretty sure it was only 30 days long as I can remember
@troy
I actually end up finding a lot of my old posts (like Inflatables of the Day) on Google.
@capnjb Try this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ameh.com+“capnjb”
It says it found about 546 posts; They aren’t sorted and I didn’t browse them all but I did see one from 2015 listed.
@IndifferentDude @capnjb
I’ve done this before with a couple of extra keywords and it generally gets me what I need…
(This is also a good way to ‘stalk’ your elfster match up for the exchange)
@capnjb @chienfou @IndifferentDude Yes stalking meh members for the exchange works well unless they are really prolific. I found out, some years ago, my person was a sports fan of a certain team. I bought him an inexpensive christmas tree decoration of santa dressed up in his favorite team’s shirt.
@capnjb @IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz
Plus it works even if their profile is blocked…
@IndifferentDude I appreciate the idea but it certainly doesn’t catch all of it.
@capnjb @chienfou @IndifferentDude @Kidsandliz or unless they are particularly quiet
@capnjb @Cerridwyn @chienfou @IndifferentDude
Yes I have had a few exchange partners who posted little here. I then had to search the internet to find things that might interest them so I could at least personalize a small corner of what was in the box. Had we had trackrs back then they certainly would have gotten one as a joke as well.
@capnjb @chienfou @IndifferentDude “elfster match exchange”? What am I missing out on?!
@soapy_boat Apparently it had something to do with the latest Meh Gift Exchange; you had to sign up for it and then someone randomly selected a match for you to send gifts to. A site called Elfster was used to communicate with participants. At least that’s what I gathered from the thread; I haven’t participated in one yet. Here’s a link to the post (There’s also a Reveal thread that was just recently started).
https://meh.com/forum/topics/official-meh-exchange-2924
@IndifferentDude Sousa cook. Thanks for the info. I’ll have to keep my eye out for the next time.
@capnjb why is this “saying the quiet part out loud?” Quiet part of what?
@Kyeh The quiet part of my intrusive thoughts. I’ve been thinking this for years, but did not want to disrupt the balance in the force.
I’m a data guy. When I need information, I want what I want, how I want and when I want, preferably in sortable tables. 
With my ADHD if that doesn’t happen immediately, I’m already on to something else. Heh 
My weird brain apologizes.
@capnjb I see. Well, I’d like to be able to find old stuff more easily too, but I suppose they can’t support such a lot of data on the actual forum …? I don’t know how it works. At least it IS Google-able but that’s time-consuming. Especially when I get fascinated by some old thread and end up reading stuff from years ago before I joined, and before I know it hours have gone by …
@Kyeh If I were Meh, I’d just move the database to Azure or AWS and hire a really good SQL or Oracle guy and they could probably redo the entire forum for under $20K… and quickly. I don’t know if their back-end stuff lives in the cloud, but it should. (IMO) But, I also buy flashlights and power banks almost every time they sell them, so don’t listen to me… I probably can’t be trusted.
@capnjb Meh probably doesn’t want to put that much effort into the forum …
@Kyeh That’s understandable. I’m not saying they should, but they could. I’m an IT guy… a proper hardware and software uplift should happen every 5-7 years if planned well. Those can take a year to plan and implement. That would be a good time to slide in something like this. It probably wouldn’t even be a blip in the ops plan. The few sites they manage all seem to operate on the same/similar framework, so they could probably push it across the sites once they’ve tested it well. I’ve done over 25 years of a mix of IT government work and big pharma, so I haven’t done a lot of internet facing stuff, but I kind of get it. If it ain’t broke don’t fix works for some time, but adding improvements and improving workflow is good for the customer. Sorry, I just dorked out.
@capnjb Maybe you could talk them into hiring you!
@Kyeh Oh, I’m a shitty SQL guy
@capnjb
Boy, do I wish NYS dept of Corrections would hire you and pay you to update/grade their medical scheduling and tracking system.
The one we have is maybe one very short step from MS-DOS-based. It is not integrated with any other systems including our pharmacy system, and the medical note-taking/charting is also pen and paper -based.
In a word- archaic.
@PhysAssist Heh, so my last job was actually supporting two businesses. A bio analytical lab and a toxicology lab. Very, very FDA regulated. The tox side had some really old instruments that were critical for certain studies, so they had to stay. A lot of the lab systems were dated but we couldn’t remove them. We put in a new switch for the lab and added some firewall rules and we were able to isolate the lab and block all ingress and egress traffic from the internet. It wasn’t ideal, but it was (more) secure.
@capnjb @Kyeh
Clearly.
That’s not at all what I was expecting from that heading…