9th October 2002 09:01 UTC
Forum search broken?
With all the questions getting asked despite of the FAQ, it hit me that maybe stuff might not be as easy to find as we think it is. So I fired up the Forum search, did a few queries and noticed almost nothing returned results.
So I picked a random post from about a month ago (my 'Updated APEs' thread) and entered two keywords from that post ('MMX Tentacles') into the search box. And behold, nothing was found.
Then I tried the same with a random post in the Winamp3 Discussions forum (link, the last post in the thread), and exactly the same happened: nothing was found ('netslave unload correctly'). Note that when using the keywords 'netslave unload', that post *is* found.
Is this a known bug? I suggest others do the same: pick a random post, a few words unique to that post and try to locate it. Most of the time, it doesn't work for me. And it happens both when searching just a specific forum as well as all forums.
Oh and where exactly is the place for posting this kind of stuff? I am not going to post it in General Discussions to have it be lost between some guy's favourite chili recipe and sexual positions.