Archive: Forum search broken?


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.


9th October 2002 09:15 UTC

I concur, it doesn't work. I'm going to go fish around for a place to report this...


9th October 2002 14:39 UTC

steven, i suggest that you pm sawg and check with him


10th October 2002 11:54 UTC

Re: Forum search broken?

Originally posted by UnConeD

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.
:) hehe

I know what you mean.:)


I wanted a winamp site/forum forum set up to ask question just like this but there was no interest. *sigh* things are so slow in the winamp boards sometimes.:)

12th October 2002 08:25 UTC

Good Sawg.

/me pets Sawg

:D