Bring back the old search function when it actually was better...and worked

hm The more I practice, the more this is starting to come together................like peanut butter and waffles. Thanx.

Originally posted by Clovie
NO!!!

this one IS working.
the last one was having all the common words crap disgust and this one is not saying I'm a common word. 😊 so fine by me

btw> in the black skin the way it looks is a bit complicated 😮 it took me two days to understand how it works cry

The current search function, for lack of a better term, sucks!

It used to be half decent, you'd be looking for an old thread, so you'd type in one or more words from title that you can remember and it'd give you a list of threads with those words in the title

Now though, you type in those words and it lists every thread in that forum where those words have been types in.... and it searches by post rather than thread title

This is not good (which is why I said it sucks .... 🙄 ) most of the results you get in a search, in my experience, are all from the same thread

It used to be much m,ore user friendly... why was it changed to the crapshack we have now? (yeah... I just made that word up.... but I like it)

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There is definite possibility that a thread about this already exists... but I couldn't find one due to the uber-suckiness of the search function

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Any chance of this problem be addressed, or just fixed, in the near future?

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Tx... rant over

Originally posted by Scoobless
There is definite possibility that a thread about this already exists... but I couldn't find one due to the uber-suckiness of the search function

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But I'd prefer to find threads by using the search function.... for all I knew the older similar thread was 20 pages back.... and I'm sure as hell not going to scan through that many to find it

Well, that's called being Lazy.

That's what the search function is for.

🙂

Originally posted by Raz
[b]Update

New search is up and running and blindingly fast. There are some new advanced operators you can use in your search:

[list]
[*]userid: search by user - so userid:1 will only return results by me. You can get the userid of a user by looking at the URL from the profile of the person you want to search by. Or by entering the username in the advanced section of the search.

[*]forumid: search by forum - so forumid:61 will only return results from the OTF. You can get the forumid by looking at the URL of the forum.

[*]threadid: search by thread - so threadid:10813 will only return results from the "Random Comments" thread (our largest on KMC). You can get the threadid again by looking at the URL of the thread.

[*]title: search by title - title:google will return all threads with the word google in them.
[/list]

Only thing left is "results as thread" option, which will be done by the end of this week.

Enjoy! [/B]

Huzzah, the answer to using the search function to it's fullest extent.

It's great what you find when you read an entire (two page) thread, ya know?

Originally posted by Lana
Huzzah, the answer to using the search function to it's fullest extent.

It's great what you find when you read an entire (two page) thread, ya know?

Ya know?

Someone can't grasp the concept. Oh dear.

The search feature says that "invalid characters" are being used when I use (parentheses) and a : colon in my search. Am I doing it right by including them?

Originally posted by Deano
anyone agree

I totally agree.i liked it much better the way it was back then.

this seach engine keels the other one