We've had search on the site for about 6 months now, and our activity logs show that it's used quite a bit.

However, we'd be the first to admit that our site search feature left a lot to be desired, and typically a Google site search would give far better results than our own search.

Well we've rolled out a batch of changes today to address this, with our new search feature that's available on every page. You can see it up there, to the top right of your screen.

The new search provides snippets of each result, and allows you to filter by result types.

This is another important step in our transformation from a Victoria-only site to an Australia-wide site. Some of the changes for the search functionality have include internal additions to support multiple states. We hope to go Australia wide in the next few months, so stay tuned...

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We've just set a new feature live - User Stories.

User stories allow you to share your anecdotes, stories and experiences relating to both heritage listed places and events in your community.

We noticed that many of you have interesting things to share about particular places or events that are important to you, but up until now there wasn't a good way to share these with others.

User stories are designed to meet this need.

So go ahead, and share some stories about the places and events near you!

You can access this feature from any heritage listing page or event page. We will also include this functionality in the future, where appropriate for other types of listings as well.

Looking forward to reading some interesting stories over the coming months!

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I just rolled out some changes to the event editor which are designed to make it more user friendly for first-time users.

I've noticed that many of the people adding scheduled events are having trouble, particularly with events with complex schedules like "3rd Sunday of the month".

So there's two main changes been made

• To make it clearer what the two different "monthly" options do
• To make it clearer what how the "end date" functions in a schedule, i.e. it sets the end of the period over which you'd like the schedule to repeat

Here's a picture of new schedule editor.

Note that the editing of non-scheduled events has not changed.

Hopefully this will make it easier for those organising or adding repeating events to get the details of the listing entered accurately.

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