According to this Storque article, you can now search the fora by title as well as post.
Searching the Community section’s forums has become a bit easier today, as we’ve rolled out a forum “title only” search option. Previously, the only way to search the forums was to search all text across all posts.
You’ll find that “forum titles” is now the default search method when browsing forum pages. This will allow you to limit the range of your forums searches to only thread titles.
This is also a good time to remind everyone using the forums to use descriptive thread titles! Descriptive thread titles make it easier to scan through the forums, and they will now make it a lot easier to search the forums at large.
This is the first of a few near-term forum search upgrades — let us know if you like it!
You can make comments and suggestions in this thread.
March 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm
yes, please.
Admin example of a descriptive thread title:
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5529480
March 26th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
It’s confusing - maybe posts should be the default, not titles?
March 26th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I only use the “title only” search if it’s a thread I remember seeing and remember the title. Threads I’ve already partially read.
But otherwise I search the body of the post because most people don’t use descriptive titles, not even admins. If I’m looking for threads I’ve never read before, I get better results searching the whole body of posts.