search for days competitions displays wrong dates and multiple instances of the same competition

champlad

select Advanced search in the COMPETITIONS FORUM, enter - E: 07/02  in the Title, select Competitions Time for Category, then select Search. The following happens, nearly 300 competitions are listed, however some with end dates of E: 14/02 were listed (not as bad as the previous versions of Competitions Time, that listed a lot more wrong dates). The other problem is that some of the competitions are listed multiple times.
For EXAMPLE - 

RE: E: 14/02 3pm Every Friday is Payday (Greatest Hits Radio - 6 entries)

Appears multiple times, - from observation every time a comment is added to the competition listing, the competition on searching for the date in this case E: 07/02 is listed again for each and every comment- so if a competition entry say had 7 comments, on searching seven instances of the SAME competition gets listed ( hence nearly 300 comps listed for E: 07/02) 

Champaklal Lad

sleepyjones

Hey @champlad.
This is because you're searching everything, so  replies to the original post will also appear (the ones with RE: at the start are the replies to the post).
When you're searching you need to make sure "Threads" is the only option clicked.

IE : search everything, shows the replies : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=Every+Friday+is+payday&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&discussion_poll=1&within=1+year&date=today

Search with only Threads selected : https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=Every+Friday+is+payday&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&within=1+year&date=today

If you notice the difference between the 2 searches with 

What to search : threads     replies   polls
If the button is Blue it's selected, if it's white, it's turned off ... just just need to ensure that only "Threads" is clicked if you do not want to search in the replies.