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February 2008 - Posts

  • Spanish Quotes

    On Monday we added a new section to ForoDeEspanol.com, Spanish quotes. We have already added over 7000 quotes and will continuously add more. There is a seperate quotes section, found through the navigation bar, where you can search and browse the quotes by tag or author, and we have the forum section where our members can comment on the quotes.

    Posted Feb 22 2008, 04:33 PM by Angela with no comments

  • Improved search

    Yesterday we implemented an improved search system, Lucene.
    It allows us to search in many different ways, but the most important ones for us are the term and field seraches.
    Terms can be single (just one word like "English") or phrases (a group of words in qutoes "learn English"). The field search allows us to be more specific and lets us search by title and text. For example I want to only search a word or phrase that is in the title ONLY, I will write in the search box title:"English Language"
    We can also search by tags, username and include the date and change how it is sorted.

    Posted Feb 16 2008, 03:04 PM by Angela with no comments

  • The New Englishforums

    The update of Englishforums.com, the most active language forums went very well on Saturday. During the changeover the site was running a little bit slower due to re-indexing of all the posts; and being so many, it almost took a day. Constructive comments are helping us optimize V3 even more and also find bugs we haven't discovered. So we are working hard daily to fix all the bugs that are known and being reported.
    It is obviously taking some time to get used to the new design and functions but there is more of a community feeling now :)
    Happy to report traffic increase since the update too, and we are eager to add more tools and applications as soon as we have the chance and the site is running bug free!
    Posted Feb 12 2008, 10:30 PM by Angela with no comments
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  • Next project update - Englishforums.com

    Today we will be upgrading our main website, www.englishforums.com to V3.
    We have had version 3 running on forodeespanol.com for a few weeks now and we are finally ready to move on to our other projects with it. Major bug issues have been fixed, things that were missing added, further optimization and implementation of tools such as a translator.
    It's quite a big move as englishforums has over 61,000 members, but it's about time we provide our users an up to date platform to learn, improve and even teach English.
    Fingers crossed :)
    Posted Feb 09 2008, 03:22 PM by Angela with no comments
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