Recently, none of the forum search features seem to be working for me. I try searching for a member, no names come up, even though the member exists. I try searching a thread, no results come up.
Anyone. Searches don't work. I just tried searching several words from your post, and it shows no results. This is getting annoying for Mafia games, where you're trying to find a certain post fast.
Place + in front of a word which must be found and - in front of a word which must not be found. Put a list of words separated by | into brackets if only one of the words must be found. Use * as a wildcard for partial matches.
In post 0, BabyBlue wrote:Recently, none of the forum search features seem to be working for me. I try searching for a member, no names come up, even though the member exists. I try searching a thread, no results come up.
It's working fine for me. Are you sure that you're spelling the member name correctly?
Are you getting an error screen, or is it returning no results?
Kublai, I already said that it is saying there are no results. And I also said that this happens when I search for anything. It's not just members. I tried searching for words here, too, but nothing.
The only thing I can think of is that the words you are searching for might not be unique enough. Words like "who" "are" "you" "looking" "for" may be used so often in the forum that the system refuses to show any results because there are too many. Even when you are only searching a single thread, this problem might persist if the system first searches the entire site for the word, and then throws away all results that aren't from this thread.
If that theory is correct, then a word like "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is bound to give a result.
Because the word "forum" isn't often used in mafia games, I guess the number of results would be large, but relatively limited.
It would be a problem if the way the site searches this thread is by searching for the word on the entire site, and then filtering the results from this thread.