Help! SEARCH is not working (03/12) - Now Fixed (06/12)

Basil1234

just tried reporting thru contact page as no staff member has responsed about this at all.

jamespir

same here las post it finds for me is friday lunchtime

meher

Basil1234 wrote: »

just tried reporting thru contact page as no staff member has responsed about this at all.

it's weekend and maybe searching own post isn't so much of an emergency; if threads or new posts weren't showing up at all, it would've been a different issue altogether

thatguy1

Last 'thread' my search find is 03-12-2010 4:43 PM

Outer_Limits

meher wrote: »

Spot on fermi, I always assumed people who post a lot, across the forum like outer might be subscribing. How else would they know where they've posted. So I was suggesting that they could use the option of checking their subscriptions instead of searching for posts for the time being.

Hello Meher the mysterious (as Adey calls you!) :santa2:

No! :rotfl: Technical incompetent here! Tried subscribing and all I got was loads of emails which I only check once a day anyway :( Some kind soul tried to explain a better way to do it........:o:o

Just have to check those little arrow things in the left hand box, for now.

poorly_scammo

Search not working for me either. Last search for me is dated 26/11/10.

meher

Outer_Limits wrote: »

Hello Meher the mysterious (as Adey calls you!) :santa2:

No! :rotfl: Technical incompetent here! Tried subscribing and all I got was loads of emails which I only check once a day anyway :( Some kind soul tried to explain a better way to do it........:o:o

Just have to check those little arrow things in the left hand box, for now.

sorry Outer, genuinely sorry, I assumed you knew about subscriptions. And I'm the same; I tried subscriptions and it simply wasn't for me. I lose interest in most threads anyway to follow them ceremoniously. So I just do search from my own profile if at all I have any intention to return to any thread.
and what does ami say, pm me and tell me all about that; nevermind if it's good, bad or gratuitious curse :snow_grin

One-Eye

meher wrote: »

it's weekend and maybe searching own post isn't so much of an emergency; if threads or new posts weren't showing up at all, it would've been a different issue altogether

but new threads are NOT showing up at all, and haven't been since Friday morning.

Go on your regular forum and search for something very common like "the". The top thread in the search results will have been started just after 10am on Friday morning.

Outer_Limits

meher wrote: »

sorry Outer, genuinely sorry, I assumed you knew about subscriptions. And I'm the same; I tried subscriptions and it simply wasn't for me. I lose interest in most threads anyway to follow them ceremoniously. So I just do search from my own profile if at all I have any intention to return to any thread.
and what does ami say, pm me and tell me all about that; nevermind if it's good, bad or gratuitious curse :snow_grin

No need for any apologies! pm'd you

fermi

Outer_Limits wrote: »

Some kind soul tried to explain a better way to do it........:o:o

I have it set like this under Edit Options.


Means that I subscribe to all threads I post on, but without emails unless I decide to change that option.

Works for me, but as said may not be useful for everyone.

It also can't help with all the the problems caused by a non functional/updating forum search. For example, can't tack down all the recent posts from spammers while it's broken.