** 09/11 MAJOR FAULT WITH SEARCH ( SOLVED 24/11 ) **

JustJMD

One-Eye said:

jessicar said:

Is there any workaround for this? As an end-date competition person, I'm finding it impossible to find the relevant competitions.

Far from perfect, but this google search might help you...
"E: 15/11 Win" site:forums.moneysavingexpert.com

... it does rely on correctly formatted titles, the order of results is very random, and it will bring up previous years comps (selecting "tools" and "past year" will help)

Oh that's strange. I just retested and found a single result when looking for https://www.checklists.co.uk/win/embroidery/ posted today.
It's clearly not reliable enough yey, as I also managed to post a dupe!
Thanks @MS@MSE_Laura_F for keeping us updated. I know it's out of your hands and must be equally frustrating for you.

BootsMullery

One-Eye said:

A little more information:

Threads newly posted since approx 22:10 on 09/11 are going into the search database correctly and can be found. Threads posted before then can not be found (unless a reply has been posted).

eg. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6401919 posted 10:22PM on 09/11 is found OK
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6401918 posted 10:01PM can not be found

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6402496/e-30-11-win-hampers-gifts-worth-240
This thread was posted 9:03pm on 11/11 but search is not finding it.

Nor this one posted at 12:14pm on 14/11
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6403087

Has the point of finding/not finding moved?

It is finding this one posted at 3:19pm on 14/11 https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6403168/e-25-11-5pm-win-a-dining-experience-for-2-at-the-monarch-theatre-london-worth-390-ig#latest

but not this one posted at 1:31pm on 14/11 https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6403124/e-28-11-win-250-theatre-tokens#latest

(It doesn't now seem to be finding the 6401919 09/11 post as mentioned above that it was finding

One-Eye

BootsMullery said:

Has the point of finding/not finding moved?

It is finding this one posted at 3:19pm on 14/11 https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6403168/e-25-11-5pm-win-a-dining-experience-for-2-at-the-monarch-theatre-london-worth-390-ig#latest

but not this one posted at 1:31pm on 14/11 https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6403124/e-28-11-win-250-theatre-tokens#latest

(It doesn't now seem to be finding the 6401919 09/11 post as mentioned above that it was finding

Yes - I get the same results

That's almost exactly a week ago. I will have a look tomorrow evening to see if it "loses" those from the 14th and the point shifts to sometime on the 15th.

One-Eye

One-Eye said:

That's almost exactly a week ago. I will have a look tomorrow evening to see if it "loses" those from the 14th and the point shifts to sometime on the 15th.

No change today

One-Eye

TWO WEEKS NOW and no progress.

I wonder how many prime ministers we will have before this is solved

MSE_James

Our suppliers advise that they have now resolved the issue. 

Certainly my regular searches are now returning results much more in line with what I would expect.

Please could regular compers test out their go-to searches and see if matters have improved?

Thank you all for your patience whilst this was investigated and fixed

JustJMD

@MSE_James. So far so good. Thanks for your persistence.

One-Eye

Thoroughly tested and everything is OK at the moment. 

Thanks to the team involved.

... and despite my cynicism we still have the same Prime Minister

jacknutter

all good, thanks so much for pushing 

jessicar

Happy Days!  Thanks very much