** SEARCH FAULT ** Finding threads but not displaying them - Possibly Solved

One-Eye

Search is sometimes finding "n" results but is displaying less than "n"
The threads it is not displaying look OK in every way.
I think this has been happening for a few days now, but it was hard to find a good example.

The "missing" thread in these examples is https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6230296

Example 1
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search="tomato+stall"&title=&author=&cat=72&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&within=1+month&date=today
returns:

ie. Search finds one thread but displays No results

Example 2
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=godminster&title=&author=&cat=72&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&within=2+months&date=today
returns:

ie. Search finds 2 results but only displays one of them.

.

One-Eye

Another example - Search finds two results but displays no results:
The threads it should display are:-
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6235375
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6235281

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=xanadu&title=&author=&cat=72&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&within=1+month&date=today

One-Eye

Another example - Search finds 5 threads but displays only one of them
The missing threads are:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6234553
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6235983
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6235986
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6235988

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=thehandbook&title=&author=&cat=72&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&within=1+month&date=today

BootsMullery

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=cohorted&title=&author=&cat=72&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&within=1+month&date=today
This search says 7 results and only shows 4

One-Eye

Now giving some really stupid results:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search="50connect"&title=&author=&cat=72&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&comment_comment=1&discussion_poll=1&within=1+day&date=

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=myweekly&title=&author=&cat=72&subcats=1&tags=&discussion_discussion=1&comment_comment=1&discussion_poll=1&within=1+day&date=

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?cat=72&adv=1&search=justcompetitions

BootsMullery

AND when you do a search with many pages of results, why is it mostly only returning 4/5 results per page (could be as little as 3 or as many as 8). Is the shortfall something to do with the "missing" ones i.e. are they just not visible?

The 50connect one mentioned above shows 100 pages of results which, with 10 results per page would give the 1000 results shown BUT Pages 1, 2 & 3 are blank. Page 4 has 3 results showing. Page 5 has 9 results showing. Page 10 has 8 results showing.

The most recent result showing (top of page 4) was posted 26/10/2020 but there have been many since then.

One-Eye

Still happening
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=ilkley&cat=72&subcats=1&within=1+month&date=today



The thread found but not displayed is https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6234646

One-Eye

2 weeks with no apparent progress.

Still happening:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search="16+Veggie+Sticks"&cat=72&subcats=1&discussion_discussion=1&within=2+months&date=today
...displays only one of the two threads it finds.
The missing thread is https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6235389

One-Eye

3 weeks with no apparent progress

Still Faulty:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/search?adv=1&search=artistsandillustrators=&cat=72&subcats=1&discussion_discussion=1&within=1+month&date=today

The thread not being displayed is https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6243745

One-Eye

After 4 weeks, this seems to be working correctly again.

thingamaBob

One-Eye said:

After 4 weeks, this seems to be working correctly again.

That will be a big help but the 'not finding anything posted since the previous approx 7:30 pm' is still happening and will still be a cause of posting dupes.