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**SEARCH FAULT** After FIFTEEN day's this is now solved
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Another overnight failure - now three days missing.0
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It might have been fixed, I searched for a FB comp before posting and it came up straight awayA strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.0
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It might have been fixed, I searched for a FB comp before posting and it came up straight away
The best test is to search for "win" and to look ONLY AT COMPS WITH NO REPLIES.
Currently the gap is from THIS at 03:57 on 25/10 (currently page 6 of the results) to THIS at 06:59 on 28/10 (currently page 5)
Tomorrow the gap will probably be 4 whole days up to about 4am on 29/10.0 -
Eeeek that's some gap!
I have since searched for a couple previously posted and as you say they aren't coming up.
Oddly they don't even show when looking through "end date" view for 29/10 etc, I thought they would be listed there.A strong man stands up for himself, a stronger man stands up for others.0 -
Thanks folks, we're aware of this and are investigating. At this point in time I can't give you a timeframe on how quickly it will be resolved.
Thankfully this only appears to be affecting a handful of forum members.Could you do with a Money Makeover?
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MSE_Andrea wrote: »
Thankfully this only appears to be affecting a handful of forum members.
I tried searching "incognito" in chrome (and edge) so the forum is the default version that everyone not logged in gets and the search fails to find items the same as it does when I am logged in and using the old forum version in chrome.
I think it might be that most people affected do not realise it rather than not many people are affected.0 -
MSE_Andrea wrote: »Thankfully this only appears to be affecting a handful of forum members.
Yes - it's only affecting those members who use Search.0 -
MSE_Andrea wrote: »Thanks folks, we're aware of this and are investigating. At this point in time I can't give you a timeframe on how quickly it will be resolved.
Thankfully this only appears to be affecting a handful of forum members.
It SHOULD be affecting everyone who posts a comp on the comps board as they should be checking that it has not already been posted but if you are unaware there is a problem, finding nothing just means there is nothing to find. This could (and may be) leading to duplicated postings which could, in turn, lead to duplicated entries and disqualifications.
See my comment in the thread HERE. I spent ages searching for a post that I knew had been posted but couldn't find while unaware of the problem. I only eventually found the OP because I knew roughly when and by whom it had been posted.0 -
It is already causing dupes - and putting users offpurplevamp wrote: »Already posted: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5915605/e-09-11-dualit-bean-to-go-machine-sophie-allport-mugs
Due to the ongoing fault, this can not be found by MSE's Search function, I did search but obviously it didn't work :cool:
I'll stop posting for today then :rotfl: 3 comps posted and 3 dupes. Thanks for spotting it0 -
It is now showing what I have just posted but the 4 days are still missing.I do it just for fun and whatever I win is a bonus0
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