https://www.comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=13287 ComicsPriceGuide.com Forums - Database & Missing Issues (Completed) - Free Comic Book Day 2019 Spawn - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Thu, 16 May 2019 19:13:34 GMT Thu, 16 May 2019 19:13:34 GMT https://www.comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=13287 Thu, 16 May 2019 19:13:34 GMT https://www.comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=13287

What I'm asking/saying is that ALL 'free comic book day' issues should be findable with the search engine using FCBD AND/OR Free Comic Book Day IN ADDITION to the series title, like the other 318 and 130 are if you use JUST FCBD or 'free comic book day', or like all the ones that already come up with their title and one or both of those FCBD terms. Why are some findable like that, and others aren't? Is it because there's multiple people adding the comics and some add the FCBD/free comic book day in the title/subtitles, and others don't? It's a consistency problem.

Can't the search engine be coded to read the ALL the text in the listing title to find "FCBD' and "Free Comic Book Day"? Tagging? That's what software is for, to make things simpler. One update to the search parameters would negate having to re-do 'thousands' of titles to add FCBD and Free Comic Book Day to them.

Like the 2019 Spawn one. Its listing says:
SPAWN #1
Free Comic Book Day
Image | Back To Spawn | May 2019 | Volume 1 | USA | 59 Owned
Free Comic Book Day 2019 Edition

But it won't come up on a search for Spawn Free Comic Book Day, so why not? Other ones do. People don't know that a title from 1992 is going to have an FCBD tab on the #1 issue for a 2019 FCBD issue if they don't find this thread or another one that mentions that (and no one looks at the About link to find your search tip videos), and if it doesn't show as a variant under the #1 issue (cuz they're not variants of THAT issue of course), and the search engine can't find it directly with the 2 phrases, they end up posting here time after time. You all have to enter these issues every year anyway, under the tabs or not, so why not title them so they can be found by how people are going to actually look for them? Tabs are fine to have too, but too many people don't notice them. I see no reason why annuals, hardcovers, trade paperbacks, FCBD etc issues can't be programmed to be found directly by those terms, but I'm not a programmer, but lots of other comic sites can do it. Or even add some other search fields in a drop down menu that we can checkbox those terms, if that's easier to add?

Thanks, just trying to help make things easier on the users at least.
edited by collectibleshop on 5/16/2019
edited by collectibleshop on 5/16/2019]]> Thu, 16 May 2019 15:37:19 GMT https://www.comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=13287 Thu, 16 May 2019 11:08:08 GMT https://www.comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=13287 https://comicspriceguide.com/titles/spawn/1_free%20comic%20book%20day/pktxnrw

'hidden' under Spawn 1992-Current, #1, then look to the right on the tabs row and click FCBD. Remember this, as this is how they're doing it now. And I'll ask the admins yet again, as others have, why do these FCBD books not show up on a search using 'Title X free comic book day' or title + FCBD, all the time, every issue? Sure would save people a lot of hunting and posting about them. the Spawn one doesn't show on the 318 issue list for a search on FCBD either, and it should. Course it's new and maybe someone forgot to cross ref the FCBD part.
But many people don't look at the issue listing tabs, that should be clear by now, so they're better served by having search terms find the book by itself.]]> Wed, 15 May 2019 23:07:21 GMT https://www.comicspriceguide.com/forum/messages.aspx?TopicID=13287 Wed, 15 May 2019 22:21:02 GMT