Searches

I understand searches inbody of text was removed because it was just too thirsty with such a massive archive, but what has happened is that unless I remember the name of a thread (tricky- head like a sieve....... also people keep changing thread names... why DO they do that?) you simply have no chance of finding something.

I am reluctant to start a new thread if I think there has been a thread running already (for fear of getting lampooned) and if I can't find the subject I simply give up and go elsewhere.
Is this what we want? Is this a good thing? Maybe I should be paranoid?

Can we sort out the search thingy? IS it possible? Or if not, can we just be a bit nicer when folk re-start a topic that is difficult to find?

Can we work something out?

MikeEnRegalia wrote: The current search facility *sucks* ... it has more features than the old one, but simply doesn't work properly. What's really annoying is that when you perform a search and you'd like to modify the text you'll have to enter it all again ... and if you're too quick then the next search will result in a "please wait 20 secs" message, which means that you have to go back and - guess what - enter the text again, select the proper category, select "display result as topics" etc .etc. ... In short: IT SUCKS GIANT MONKEY BALLS!

chopper wrote: The forum body text search thingy

I would like the "Message Body" function to get back, I used a lot and it was highly helpful. Now it's hopeless to find deep message and specific discussions, terms or such, without knowing exactly what the topic title is, who made, when or how it made (or such). 

The message body function uses too much server resource to reinstate it I'm afraid. If we put it back up, the rest of the site would be unacceptably slow.