[Search-l] Website malfunction, help please

[Markus Petz]

At 10.02.2008 16:55, you wrote:
>re the login problem you need to make sure that you click the wiki login 
>button on the left, as the one on the top right is for the social bit.
>
>with regards to the search results i have less knowledge on that.  the 
>results should be provided to any user (i.e. don't need to be logged in) 
>and there can be a lag, due to the slow page loads.  the page iirc needs 
>js to work properly, is this configured properly in your browser?

Thanks, i see that there are actually two different logins (they should be 
better distinguished, don't know what 'social bit' means). Wiki login seems 
to work now but search still doesn`t. Tried with IE, no luck either, i only 
get empty search results (i.e. the page loads but there are 0 results 
displayed). JavaScript is on.

I seem to be not the only one having this problem: 
http://search.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Link_to_proper_login_for_editing_%28not_alpha%29&t=20080210094922
I don't want to be offensive and i hope the following is seen as 
constructive criticism. I do think that if the site should be successful 
(and i strongly hope it will be!) it ought to get some mayor cleanup, and 
above all, the search has to work. What i see now looks confusing to me. 
There are various wikis (everybody can start a new one, what purpose is 
this for?), there are forums, there are mini-articles and categories (but 
there's no link there). Where's the hub for all this, and what are all 
those facilities for? Where am i supposed to post my ideas and concerns 
like this one, as i feel this is might be OT in the developers mailing list.
As another example, i'm even not sure where i should write a reply if i get 
contacted by a user via my user talk wiki page. Is the other user going to 
read y reply on my own page or am i supposed to post on that users page? 
Too many possibilities, too little giudance and certainty, i feel.