Is it me or RF's search engine?

[Terry Sampson]

• I enter a target term (never more than two words, more often just one).
• I enter name of "Posted by".
• I click on "Search" and get nothing, usually because I'm not in the forum that the message I'm looking for is in.
• So, I go to "Advanced Search" and click on "Search Everything" and get nada.

 

[dybmh]

Don't forget to duck...

... when @Rival swoops in to inform you about this... best wishes... BYE!

 

[Laika]

• I enter a target term (never more than two words, more often just one).
• I enter name of "Posted by".
• I click on "Search" and get nothing, usually because I'm not in the forum that the message I'm looking for is in.
• So, I go to "Advanced Search" and click on "Search Everything" and get nada.

it's the search engine. It's not been working for a while I believe.

 

[Rival]

It works for me, but others have said it doesn't work for them.

It's searching users' posts on their profile that doesn't work for me.

 

[Revoltingest]

• I enter a target term (never more than two words, more often just one).
• I enter name of "Posted by".
• I click on "Search" and get nothing, usually because I'm not in the forum that the message I'm looking for is in.
• So, I go to "Advanced Search" and click on "Search Everything" and get nada.

Ditto.
But it recently went from terrible to better for me.

 

[Terry Sampson]

it's the search engine. It's not been working for a while I believe.

Good to know, one less rejection to bring up in next week's therapy session.

 

[Revoltingest]

Don't forget to duck...

... when @Rival swoops in to inform you about this... best wishes... BYE!

But if you search for "Most intelligent, respected, &
fetching Rival", you'll get tens of thousands of hits.

 

[Laika]

Good to know, one less rejection to bring up in next week's therapy session.

It's nothing personal. The forum hates everyone. It's blacking out the trauma of everything users are posting on here.

 

[Terry Sampson]

But if you search for "Most intelligent, respected, & fetching Rival", you'll get tens of thousands of hits.

She can type that fast?

 

[Rival]

She can type that fast?

Psht.

People like me have minions.

 

[Revoltingest]

She can type that fast?

They're posts about her.
She's also the only staffer who doesn't clog the terlits in the staff lavatory.

 

[Sunstone]

We are not neglecting the problem, @Terry Sampson. The search function will eventually get repaired. Unfortunately, an issue has come up that is causing delays. I am not sure if I am at liberty to divulge the issue, so I'm going to play cautious and keep silent about it. But we are aware of the problem with the search function and I can assure you we will fix it at our first opportunity.

 

[Terry Sampson]

an issue has come up that is causing delays

Social distancing, no doubt.

 

[Sunstone]

Social distancing, no doubt.

Who would have thought we should not have moved those Intel processors apart? It seemed like such a good idea. After all, you know what viruses can do to computers!

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Unfortunately, an issue has come up that is causing delays. I am not sure if I am at liberty to divulge the issue, so I'm going to play cautious and keep silent about it.

That's okay. I think we can all use our imagination:

- The monkey belonging to @Quagmire got its tail stuck in the fax machine.

- Someone told @SalixIncendium his fashion sense was poor, taking humanity back 100 years in the making.

- @lewisnotmiller installed too large and visible of security cameras in members' houses, causing large backlash after @Nowhere Man started thinking it was the paparazzi and getting his hopes up.

 

[MNoBody]

search function has never worked for me since arriving....in any manner.
[feedback from user]

 

[Rival]

This is what I see when I search 'Sia'-

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What see you?

 

[MNoBody]

The following error occurred:
The search could not be completed. Please try again later.

on profile page .... [should have specified]

 

[Rival]

The following error occurred:
The search could not be completed. Please try again later.
on profile page .... [should have specified]

Yes, that function is broken for everyone.

 

[ChristineM]

• I enter a target term (never more than two words, more often just one).
• I enter name of "Posted by".
• I click on "Search" and get nothing, usually because I'm not in the forum that the message I'm looking for is in.
• So, I go to "Advanced Search" and click on "Search Everything" and get nada.

I've have little problem with it, perhaps 1 failure with no results in 10 searches. Repeating a failed search on the same page also fails but refreshing the page and searching again will work (for me)

My problem with the search is that it often produces a high percentage of irrelevant results and have to look through 2 or more pages of results to find what I'm looking for, but that's probably down to me not specifying the search criteria properly