Hi Ali, The search on ixda.org is terrible; guilty as charged. I've been toying around with an implementation of Google search for the site, though it's not ready for prime time.
But as to why it wasn't built as an online forum: the discussion list actually began life as an e-mail list. The goal when the website launched was to minimize any attrition by essentially just grafting the website onto the existing e-mail list without making anyone change what they were doing. No new registration, no new passwords. There are probably a ton of people who don't even realize there IS a website; they only see IxDA from their inbox. Designing a web-only forum would probably be better, but getting 8,500 people switched to a new system isn't trivial. // jeff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35123 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
