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Subject: Bungie.net Search 2.0

Hi. My name is Sean. I've been a Bungie fan since Halo launched. Some of my interests include games, exercising, laser tag, martial arts, movies, music, sports, and technology. Feel free to contact me at any time.

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The Bungie.net/Search page is great for finding the most recent posts made by a user (Forums - Author). The other fields (News, Games, Support, Forums - All) don't always give you the results that you are looking for. Updating this feature would be beneficial for Bungie.net members and this is how I would do it. Would these ideas listed below encourage you to search more? Please feel free to share your input on the topic. Thank you.

Bungie.net Search 2.0 would have four sections for each field (search, sort by, sort order, filters). Search is where you type what you are looking for. Sort lets you choose how and what order you would like your results displayed. Filters let you restrict your search. The advanced section would be hidden by default. This is what I came up with while brainstorming. I'm not expecting all of this to be implemented; it's just food for thought.

SEARCH NEWS:
Search
Title
Summary Text
Full News Story Text

Sort By
Relevance
Title
Date
Views
Poster
Writer

Sort Order
Ascending
Descending

Filters
Tags
Top Stories Enabled/Disabled/Only
Groups Stories Enabled/Disabled/Only
Embedded Objects Enabled/Disabled/Only

Advanced Filter
Poster(s)
Writer(s)
Posted: Before (Date), After (Date), In (Year), In (Month), On (Date), On (Day), At (Time)
Post Is (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Lines
Post Is (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Characters

SEARCH GAMES:
Creating a way to search games for Halo 2, Halo 3, and Halo 3: ODST would not be beneficial in my opinion so this would be for Halo: Reach only. This game finder could have a lot more options, but I care more about the forum search being enhanced. If you'd like the expand on this, you're more than welcome to.

Search
Game Title

Sort By
Relevance
Title
Date
Duration

Sort Order
Ascending
Descending

Filters
Type (Invasion, Arena, Competitive, Campaign, Firefight, Custom)
Maps
Playlists

Advanced Filters
Player(s) In Game *
Player Placed (ex. Games when Cryptic placed 2nd)
Team Placed (ex. Games when Red Team placed 1st)
Duration Is (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Minutes
Played: Before (Date), After (Date), In (Year), In (Month), On (Date), On (Day), At (Time)

* Note the "Player(s) In Game" filter could be used to find multiple people that were in the same game or just games that include at least one of the players. Typing Player A AND Player B would only include games they were both in. Typing Player A OR Player B would find games that at least one of them is in.

SEARCH SUPPORT:
Bungie.net doesn't have a huge guide or support section. If they were to include FAQs for Bungie.net and their games, I would consider creating a search for support.

SEARCH POSTS:
Search
Post

Sort By
Relevance
Date
Poster

Sort Order
Ascending
Descending

Filters
Public Forums Only
Private Forums Only
Forum
ALL CAP Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only
Anonymous Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only
Employee Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only
Moderator Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only
Original Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only
Last Replies Enabled/Disabled/Only
Reported Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only
Collapsed Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only
Blacklisted Posts Enabled/Disabled/Only

Advanced Filters
Poster(s)
Post Edited By User(s)
Post Quotes User(s)
Markups
Posted: Before (Date), After (Date), In (Year), In (Month), On (Date), On (Day), At (Time)
Edited: Before (Date), After (Date), In (Year), In (Month), On (Date), On (Day), At (Time)
Post Is (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Lines
Post Is (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Characters

SEARCH THREADS:
Search
Thread Title

Sort By
Relevance
Creation Date
Last Reply
Replies
Views
Saves (Likes)

Sort Order
Ascending
Descending

Filters
Tags
Public Forums Only
Private Forums Only
Forum
ALL CAP Threads Enabled/Disabled/Only
Gold Threads Enabled/Disabled/Only
Saved Threads Enabled/Disabled/Only
Locked Threads Enabled/Disabled/Only
Archived Threads Enabled/Disabled/Only

Advanced Filters
Creator(s)
Poster(s) In Thread *
Last Reply By Poster(s)
Created: Before (Date), After (Date), In (Year), In (Month), On (Date), On (Day), At (Time)
Last Reply: Before (Date), After (Date), In (Year), In (Month), On (Date), On (Day), At (Time)
Thread Has (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Replies
Thread Has (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Views
Thread Has (Exactly/Less Than/More Than) X Saves (Likes)

* Note the "Poster(s) In Thread" filter could be used to find multiple people that posted in the same thread or just threads that include at least one of the members. Typing Member A AND Member B would only include threads they both posted in. Typing Member A OR Member B would find threads that at least one of them posted in.

This thread is an improved version of the one I created here.

[Edited on 02.10.2011 3:05 PM PST]

  • 02.08.2011 4:07 PM PDT
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What an incredibly detailed post...

I'm all for it. I'd like the search posts feature a lot, as well as the improved game search!

  • 02.08.2011 4:10 PM PDT

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It's like a gigantic snowball, rolling down a mountain, eating kids on the way.

It makes so much more sense when it's laid out like that.

Good job mate :)

  • 02.08.2011 4:11 PM PDT

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I would love to see this!

  • 02.08.2011 4:28 PM PDT
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Oh stoshy boy! Think you could turn this out before the next overhaul? We'll no longer blame you for everythings. =)

  • 02.08.2011 4:29 PM PDT

I think this is a great idea! A++ dude!

  • 02.08.2011 4:50 PM PDT

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Capital idea. I'd definitely like to see this be put into action!

  • 02.08.2011 4:55 PM PDT
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Positive vibes.

Damn, Cryptic. I support your idea all the way, man. Nice work.

  • 02.08.2011 4:58 PM PDT

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It's a wonderful idea, but how long would that take to implement? From the looks of it, it would take a few man hours...

  • 02.08.2011 5:01 PM PDT

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I love the concept, and I would actually like to use this on Bungie.net. (It's kind of like advanced search on google)

  • 02.08.2011 5:05 PM PDT
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To be honest I'd just like to sort by date and thread title.

  • 02.08.2011 7:47 PM PDT

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Overall I like the idea. I don't use the searchbar much as it is, so I don't know all of the current in and outs, and what not, but what you suggest seems to be a great idea. It looks like a great way to find specific things, because I know from past experience finding specific things isn't always easy.

Overall, I'm all for this idea. On paper right now, it looks like a lot, but all in all this could be very beneficial.

  • 02.08.2011 9:41 PM PDT

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duardos right

OT: good lookin out op

[Edited on 02.08.2011 9:42 PM PST]

  • 02.08.2011 9:42 PM PDT

Great idea man! I would love to see this.

  • 02.08.2011 9:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: Duardo
To be honest I'd just like to sort by date and thread title.


I think you could toss in key words of posts, too, the programming requirements notwithstanding (I don't know how hard it would be to do).

  • 02.08.2011 9:45 PM PDT

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Jeez Cryptic, you got everything in there, well done. If Bungie implemented all this, we'd have the opposite problem of what we have now. It'd be impossible NOT to find something.

  • 02.08.2011 9:47 PM PDT

Hi. My name is Sean. I've been a Bungie fan since Halo launched. Some of my interests include games, exercising, laser tag, martial arts, movies, music, sports, and technology. Feel free to contact me at any time.

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Posted by: Spartan 104 S2AM
It's a wonderful idea, but how long would that take to implement? From the looks of it, it would take a few man hours...
You're right. I'm not sure if this would be possible or realistic to implement. I was just brainstorming. I would appreciate any improvement(s) made to the search feature on Bungie.net.

Posted by: Duardo
To be honest I'd just like to sort by date and thread title.
I included some filter options that I would never use, but maybe others would. It's just food for thought. By the way, there are some ways you could use this to help moderate the forums.

Search: Post
Sort By: Date
Sort Order: Descending
Filter: Public Forums Only
Filter: ALL CAP Posts Only
Filter: Blacklisted Posts Disabled
Advanced Filter: Posted Today

Search: Post
Sort By: Date
Sort Order: Descending
Filter: Public Forums Only
Filter: Original Posts Only
Filter: Blacklisted Posts Disabled
Advanced Filter: Posted Today
Advanced Filter: Post Is Less Than 5 Lines
Advanced Filter: Post Is Less Than 50 Characters

Search: Thread Title
Sort By: Last Reply
Sort Order: Descending
Filter: ALL CAP Threads Only
Filter: Locked Threads Disabled
Advanced Filter: Last Reply After Yesterday
Advanced Filter: Thread Has More Than 10 Views

Also, I've seen a lot of threads suggesting notifications to let you know someone quoted you, but you could use this search feature instead.

Search: Post
Sort By: Date
Sort Order: Descending
Filter: Public Forums Only
Advanced Filter: Post Quotes User Duardo

[Edited on 02.08.2011 11:26 PM PST]

  • 02.08.2011 11:04 PM PDT

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Aye, these sound generally like excellent ideas. I'd also like to be able to get a 'search for older replies' option when you check someone's post history. I appreciate that limiting the number of posts in the initial history is useful, but being able to search through more than 12 pages of posts is also fairly handy at times.

  • 02.10.2011 11:46 AM PDT

Dont be shy...
Im sorry for my coup changes but Im new at this.

i like it, you spended your time i a good post. Bungie needs to read this

  • 02.10.2011 11:54 AM PDT

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Sounds great. Hopefully the web team can pick up on these proposals if they already have not.

Anything that would improve the search tools here would be great. I know this doesn't help much, but the OP is pretty thorough.

~Delta

  • 02.10.2011 1:32 PM PDT

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Posted by: Delta 15t
Sounds great. Hopefully the web team can pick up on these proposals if they already have not.

Anything that would improve the search tools here would be great. I know this doesn't help much, but the OP is pretty thorough.

~Delta


I agree. I mean, the internet was here along with Bungie.net back in, what was it 1987? Or was it '86? I can't recall, hell I might not even have all my facts straight... But in any regard, you'd think they would have had time to perfect the Search system.

And OP, I like what you've come up with, and I'd love to see some of what you've mentioned implemented down the road.

[Edited on 02.10.2011 1:43 PM PST]

  • 02.10.2011 1:42 PM PDT
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They should completely rework Google for exclusive bungie.net use. That would be the optimal search system.

  • 02.10.2011 1:45 PM PDT

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I like the sound of this. Would definitely cut down the searchbar threads overall.

  • 02.10.2011 1:46 PM PDT

I really like the ideas to improve the search system. They look like they could definitely speed up looking for specific items. I would love to have the search system you've included in your post implemented into the site.

  • 02.10.2011 1:47 PM PDT

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