[Koha-bugs] [Bug 34315] Replacement of mailman (mailing lists)

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=34315

--- Comment #7 from Thomas Dukleth <td-koha-bugs at agogme.com> ---
(In reply to David Cook from comment #4)
> (In reply to Thomas Dukleth from comment #2)
> > Do you propose to fix the won't fix status of search by date?
> 
> Who are you talking to here?

By "who" I had meant us.  I thought I had found some months ago that the basic
feature of searching by date was missing from Discourse and that the developers
had some problem about creating a search by date feature which I found truly
shocking.

I should have corrected my mistake more quickly in this bug once I had actually
posted incorrectly here.  I quickly discovered on my own after Wednesday's
development meeting that I had been mistaken about Discourse missing a search
by date feature and corrected myself on IRC.

A few months ago I had examined Discourse in some detail and I had been shocked
to mistakenly discover that it did not have a search by date feature because
the friendly advanced search user interface was too well hidden behind a
hierarchy of skeuomorphic icons.  Additionally, I remembered having found some
report about an enhancement request relating to time period which had been
designated won't fix in some manner.  While it seemed difficult to believe that
such a basic feature seemed to be missing, the tone which people from the
company which controls Discourse use on their site sometimes seems
inappropriately harsh when they are uninterested in some line of development. 
These combination of factors  had led me to believe that searching by date did
not exist in Discourse and was in some way difficult to implement for which I
had imagined that the internal date representation for posts was confused by
multiple dates and possibly not always preserved in a manner which people would
find most helpful.

Most likely the request about date searching which I remember finding months
ago but did not find again now related to adding a user interface feature for
searching a time period between two dates which mistook for searching for dates
in any way.  The before and after syntax is available, but I understand now
that adding the combination of before and after to the advanced search for time
period might be confusing to some users.

I remember when a link to a properly labelled advanced search would be commonly
found next to a simple search box.  Some popular sites may have found that an
advanced search feature while highly valued by some users would scare more
people away on some popular websites.  Consequently, it has become fashionable
to hide advanced search.  It has also become common to hide even simple search
with a magnifying glass icon.  Discourse is the first program for which I have
now noticed that advanced search is hidden behind another menu icon after first
clicking the magnifying glass icon.

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