Announcing - Advanced search for the IWC Collectors Forum

Thank you, thank you, very exciting!!!

Advanced IWC forum search V2 is out. Here's what's new:

• Image Search
  • Index of ~46K total valid images, restored to their full glory from Photobucket and other sources (no more blurry or watermarked images) and securely cached for future preservation and maximum performance.
  • Returns and displays only full valid images - no more broken images or image links
  • See results in Pinterest-like thumbnail river view
  • Full screen gallery view with image paging, zoom and additional metadata
  • Navigate to original forum post by clicking on the thread title in image view
  • Search, sort and filter image results using same advanced options as post search (query, by user, post age etc etc)
• Two new advanced sorting options
  • By post content size - returns longest posts first. Convenient for finding longer and potentially useful articles, reviews etc. on various topics.
  • By image count in a post - returns posts with most images first. Allows finding most visually rich posts and stories on any topic.

Check it out here and let me know what you think:
crownwheel.co/iwc/images/

Here's an example of image search results: Image search for
'ardoise'

As always, would appreciate any feedback and suggestions.

V2 is literally next level. I love how you can even go back to the original
post from the image.

Absolutely amazing work. Thank you so much for yout time and effort, I hope
someone upstairs (in Schaffhausen ;) ) is watchimng and gives you the
recognization this deserves!!!

Very impressive work! Thank you for the amazing possibilities.

Jens-Kristian

Alex - the quality of your work is fantastic. Lots of thought and attention to
detail with v2.

Thanks again!

I-M-P-R-E-S-S-I-V-E !!!

Adrian,

(alwaysiwc).

Seconded! A call from Schaffhausen to @alexirt really would be appropriate.

A quick update, by popular demand (mainly from @8541) I did some additional
work to update the search engine with the latest content. The last update was
in December 2019, and a lot of great stuff has been added since then, and we
want this new stuff to also be easily searchable and discoverable.

Some stats -

Since December 2019:

• New posts: 4,526
• New images: 3,646

Total :

• Total indexed posts: 274,634
• Total indexed images: 49,494

Take a look at crownwheel.co/iwc/ and let me
know your thoughts.