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15th September 2005, 06:47 PM
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| | Community Supporter
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| Mods - Close thread, please.
Asked and answered, it would seem so Close thread, please close this thread, please.
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15th September 2005, 07:11 PM
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| | Trailblazin'!!
Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: the bustling metro that is...East Providence, RI
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| I'm bummed about the search function problems as well. Searching is probably the single biggest reason why people buy a community supporter account. I'm not sure when mine is up again but the state of the search function will probably weigh into my decision to renew.
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15th September 2005, 07:19 PM
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| | Epic Oozemaster
Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Columbus, Ohio
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| that's so odd. It might not help much much I've been searching for things a lot lately with zero problems. | |
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15th September 2005, 07:22 PM
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| | Wilderlands Explorer
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Originally Posted by Crothian that's so odd. It might not help much much I've been searching for things a lot lately with zero problems. | Same here - no problems lately...
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15th September 2005, 07:29 PM
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| | Community Supporter
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: CreativeMountainGames.com
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| Still problems with Search?
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15th September 2005, 07:35 PM
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| | Lost in the Machine
Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Knoxville TN
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| In one to two weeks I will be upgrading MySQL to the latest stable version that is compatible with the latest stable version of vbulletin. This dual upgrade will be handled one per week, hopefully starting this week with the vbulletin upgrade to 3.0.9
That upgrade will make available a new and far more powerful search method, but it will require the search index to be completely rebuilt. That will take a few days and while the server will be up during that time it will be running pretty slowly due to the overhead. | |
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15th September 2005, 07:45 PM
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| | Community Supporter
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| Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
That's not something I really should be getting from my recent search but there it was.
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15th September 2005, 08:00 PM
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| | Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Far from the nearest settlement, away from traveled routes, and high upon a craggy hill. . .
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Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
That's not something I really should be getting from my recent search but there it was.
| Yeah, I know what you mean. My search for "Rel nude pics" came up with nada, but I just *know* reveal posted them a few months ago.
Seriously, Mark CMG, check the "Find Posts from" field. You may already know and have tried it, but I have sometimes had to adjust that field out of the "Any Date" setting to get better results. Don't know why.
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15th September 2005, 08:06 PM
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| | ENnies PR Coordinator
Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Council Bluffs, IA
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Originally Posted by Quasqueton Yeah, I know what you mean. My search for "Rel nude pics" came up with nada, but I just *know* reveal posted them a few months ago. | I hope the search feature works so I can search for mentions of my username. Luckily I stumbled upon this thread. Quasqueton, where do you want me to send them? | |
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15th September 2005, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Quasqueton Seriously, Mark CMG, check the "Find Posts from" field. You may already know and have tried it, but I have sometimes had to adjust that field out of the "Any Date" setting to get better results. Don't know why. | Thanks but it didn't seem to help for me. Can you give it a try and see what results you get? I'd really like to find the thread(s) from last winter on the FFG sale on their Legends & Lore product line print products. | |
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15th September 2005, 08:51 PM
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| | ENnies PR Coordinator
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Originally Posted by Mark CMG Thanks but it didn't seem to help for me. Can you give it a try and see what results you get? I'd really like to find the thread(s) from last winter on the FFG sale on their Legends & Lore product line print products. | I tried both phrases you mentioned and got the same results you did. | |
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15th September 2005, 09:29 PM
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| | Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Far from the nearest settlement, away from traveled routes, and high upon a craggy hill. . .
Posts: 3,395
| Yeah, the Search function is flaky. Using the same search criteria, I got different results by displaying the results ascending vs. descending. Descending went back only to May this year. Ascending showed Jan 02 through April 02. <shrug>
No joy, though, on finding what you want.
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15th September 2005, 09:40 PM
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| Bummer. Thanks for trying, though, guys.  | |
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15th September 2005, 10:45 PM
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| | Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Stoned Mountain, GA
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| for the last 5 or so searches i got no result too. and i know there should have been one. it was a pained to manually look for the thread i wanted.
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12th November 2005, 06:13 PM
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| | Registered User
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| I was searching for threads about forsakers, and apparently there weren't any in 2003 or 2004. But when I searched using google, I found a thread in this interval with "forsaker" in its title.
I infer that there are still problems with the search function database.
I suppose there is not much that can be done until Spoony Bard returns from his personal leave. | |
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12th November 2005, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheiromancer I suppose there is not much that can be done. | You have the solution right there in your post, search with Google!
Google site:enworld.org keyword
It's not complete but might work.
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12th November 2005, 08:14 PM
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| | Creature Cataloguer
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| search hasn't been working quite right for me for a few months... | |
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12th November 2005, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Psionicist You have the solution right there in your post, search with Google!
Google site:enworld.org keyword
It's not complete but might work. | I've been doing that, but board based searching was supposed to be a benefit of being a community supporter.  I would still pay the annual fee even if there were no search function provided, but if the search function was promised then I think the promise should be kept.
And anyway Google doesn't help if you want to sort by forum, by thread starter, by date, or by other parameters. I also don't know how thoroughly google has indexed EN World. | |
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12th November 2005, 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Cheiromancer I was searching for threads about forsakers, and apparently there weren't any in 2003 or 2004. But when I searched using google, I found a thread in this interval with "forsaker" in its title. | I was trying to search the other day, and I came to the conclusion that search can't find anything from 2004 and most of 2005. 
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13th November 2005, 12:27 AM
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| that seems to be basically true. and sparingly for 2003 it seems. | |
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