Search tool - More Posts by - not working

Tigsteroonie

When you click on a Username and select "Find More Posts by ..." the search tool is not currently finding any posts.

1. Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

Currently getting the error on both mine & Marleyboy's logins.

One-Eye

I am also having search problems today:

1) (as posted by Tigsteroonie above) Click on a username, then click on "Find More Posts by username"
This is not working at all - returning "no matches" in all cases

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2) The way Advanced Search works on a User Name seems also to have changed today.

Searching for posts by a particular user (eg. myself = One-Eye) I can sort the resulting threads:
a) According to the Last Posting Date (the last post by anybody)
b) Thread Starting Date (thread started by anybody)

Before today I could also get results:
c) According to the Last Posting Date of the user I am searching.

In some cases a) and b) are not suitable. If I want to look at threads where a particular user has posted something in the last few days, b) is irrelevant and a) is swamped by threads where that user posted something years ago but somebody else has posted there recently.

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3) "Search this Thread" doesn't work at all

Test it on the current thread for username "fermi" or for the term "search" (or for both at the same time) - always gives "no matches".

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I suspect all these problems are related.

Former_MSE_Megan

Ah, thanks for pointing this out. It's gone onto the Tech Team's to-do list. Will update you once we know more

fermi

Even normal searches don't seem to be working now?

All searches on words in individual posts are coming up with the error.

For example search for the word 'money'.

fermi

Now very annoying, as I can see a spammer, but the forum won't let me search to find all their posts.

jonesMUFCforever

I am having the same problem too.

fermi

Still broken.

shirley999

Amazing we all made it here!

Former_MSE_Megan

Is anyone else having this issue still? A few of us have checked and it's working this morning.

fermi

Yes. Still broken.

Make sure you are searching for posts, not displaying results as threads.

Find all posts by MSE Megan





Searching by thread works, but is useless when trying to find individual posts if they are not thread starters.

Find all threads started by MSE Megan

fermi

Also same result when searching for individual posts by keyword.

e.g. a search like this for posts containing the word 'money', which should never come up blank here.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search.php?do=process&query=money&exactname=1&starteronly=0&titleonly=0&showposts=1&searchdate=0&beforeafter=after&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending&replyless=0&replylimit=0&searchthreadid=0&saveprefs=0&quicksearch=0&searchtype=0&nocache=0&ajax=0&userid=0&