vBulletin Mods

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Description

Threadloom Search provides an easy way to upgrade your forum with cloud search. It is 10x faster than vBulletin search. It also gives you image search, spell correction, and WordPress search.

Threadloom Search is now available as a supplemental option to the native forum search

In addition to various fixes and improvements, this update includes a new feature that lets your forum members choose (and save) Threadloom Search or your native forum search engine as their default search engine. You no longer have to choose between the two – your members can have both. As an admin, however, you are able to set either option as the default search engine for new visitors to your forum. You can learn more from our blog post here.

If you’d like to learn more about this feature please check out our Help Center articles:

• Allow users to choose their search engine
• Set default search option

Examples

Threadloom is installed on 1000+ forums with 500M posts, including: 4x4 Community SA, Air Rifle SA, AULRO, AZ Billiards, Baby Bargains, BayouShooter, Fiat Forum, FreedomCardBoard, Golden Skate, Muscle Mecca.

Compare Threadloom vs. vBulletin search in real-time on AZBilliards.

— Alan Fields, owner of Baby Bargains


Features

Computer vision-based image search
Finds images even if the search term isn't in the title, metadata, or post.

Spell correction
Fixes typos and word breaks, and recognizes popular brands and slang.

Custom search tabs
Lets you configure tabs that automatically search over your WordPress blog, storefront, or any crawlable web page.

Advanced search filters
Restrict by forum, user, tag, or thread prefix, with typeahead suggestions.

Auto-scaling
Doesn't slow down as your forum grows, and doesn't require server upgrades.

Real-time indexing
Adds new posts within seconds.​

Installation

• Register on the Threadloom website.
• Download and install the plug-in.
• Wait for your forum to be indexed (~500K posts/hr).
• Test Threadloom Search privately.
• Enable it in AdminCP.

Mark as Installed at the top of the page to get updates.


Options page

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Baby Bargains case study

Threadloom is the first cloud search engine designed specifically for forums. Two months after installing Threadloom, searches on BabyBargains.com increased six-fold, while the time to complete a search decreased 90%. Sessions with a site search showed greater engagement compared to the year prior – lower bounce rates, more pages per session, and longer session durations.

For sessions with a search:
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Read more.


Questions and answers
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Q: Do you sell or share my data?​
A: No. We will never sell or share your data.​
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Q: Do you offer a free version?​
A: Yes. Threadloom Search is free for sites with up to 10M posts – no credit card required!
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Q: How do you make money?​
A: We charge a monthly fee for larger forums.​
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Q: Do I have to pay if my members or guests search more?​
A: No. All tiers – free or paid – include unlimited searches.​
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Q: Do you offer a free trial?​
A: Yes. You can try it for free for 30 days regardless of how large your forum is. If your community has less than 10 million posts, it's free.
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Q: How is Threadloom Search different from vBulletin Sphinx Search?​
A: Threadloom Search returns 10x more results. It includes image search, spell correction, and WordPress search. It's also easier to perform advanced searches, and easier for you to administer because you don't have to run anything on your server.​
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Q: What if your servers go down?​
A: We're built on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, which are fairly reliable. If they do hiccup, Threadloom Search automatically fails over to native search.​
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Q: Do you observe my theme settings?​
A: Yes. You can also override colors with RGB or hex values.​
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Q: Is your UI responsive?​
A: Yes. Check out the example links above from whichever device you prefer, or see the attached mobile screenshots.​
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Q: Do you search over non-forum parts of my site?​
A: Yes. We do this through Custom Search Tabs, meaning that the parts of the site need to be crawlable / visible to search engines.​
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Q: Does the plug-in work for vBulletin 3.x?​
A: Yes.​ Please see our listing here.
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Q: How do I modify the vBulletin 4.2.x sidebar on Threadloom Search result pages?​
A: Yes. This requires an additional modification. You can find the instructions here.​

i don't understand exactly the aim of this addon
how it works ? does it supprot Arabic language

This plug-in replaced your native search engine with a powerful, easy-to-use, cloud-based search engine, that makes it easier for your users to find the best content in your forum.

Search controls are in English, but Arabic post content should be fine.

Installed and, so far, seems to be working quite well on 4.2.3

What happens after the 30 day free trial expires?

It's free for as long as your forum has 25K monthly actives or fewer. If your forums is or grows above that, there are paid options. Every subscription – free and paid – includes unlimited posts and unlimited searches.

Okay...that wasn't clear to me...and I'm only trying to make sure our site policies are observed. :)

I do want to mention (for the benefit of others) that the installation on my local dev site consistently timed out, and I had to increase the maximum execution time by entering the following line in my "includes/config.php" file:

Block Disabled:      (Update License Status)
Suspended or Unlicensed Members Cannot View Code.

Once the product is installed (if you need this), then comment it out.

I would also like to say that the install for this product is very nicely and professionally done, with no need to manually upload any files to the server. :up:

I know I have gotten many complaints from my users regarding the intrinsic vB search engine, and I will be looking into this as an alternative. Thank you for sharing. :cool:

Will this work on a local server? I had to enter the information from the public site I help admin, but it doesn't seem to work on my local server. I generally test things on my local server before going "live" with them. :D

Yes, this will work on a local server provided it can make a secure connection to our servers. Feel free to PM me or email me at support at threadloom dot com and I'm happy to take a closer look.

Before enabling Threadloom, we need to create your index. The first sync usually takes 6-12 hours. (We’ve designed the plug-in to not interfere with other operations, e.g., scheduled tasks, backups.)

Nice tweak, installed!

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Could you fix that?
I'm using vB 4.2.4

EDIT: Whole board has been broken after uninstalling this mod. I suppose this should not happen....

@seb5594: Thanks for the report. There are no references to "Notif" in our code and our threadloom.php file has fewer than 400 lines. Is it possible another user/process overwrote the file?

Please define exactly what this means.

i.e. what exactly is a "monthly active user" ?

As defined by Google Analytics. We have some more info on this on our website at https://www.threadloom.com/pricing (scroll down to Pricing FAQs).

All that states is ;
It doesnt define what that count is actually counting.