I think the better question is "Why are we still having problems with Search?"

Near as I can figure out is that the Search Function is for the website articles and not the forum..

No, it's for the forum, the default is Search Our Community (Entire Community). Once into a particular forum, you can then use the drop down to select where you would like to search. For instance, in this forum I can search Entire Community, Forum Feedback & Error Reporting or Feedback, Help and Testing.

Or, should I say could search if it wasn't broken!

The 'Search our Community' search is working for me.

Yep.

       Of all the new features that the website has this is the most frustrating as it seems to work only sporadically. If it all. I have even gone so far as to email Matt Usher directly, which I have never done before.

Will see if it does any good.

See ya

Scott

The "community search" function has been a "now it is on" and "now it is gone" thing regularly.

It does not seem to be a maintaniance issue. I don't know if FSM has any software warranty or maintaniance contract with the web site upgrade developer. I sure hope that Megan or Matt will let us know if the forum is being maintained or not.

It's still ka-blooey.  Enter a term; get zero results.  Click on more search options and click sort  by newest first and suddenly, the search works and the 1st page of results is shown.  But click next to go to page 2 and the red line of death re-appears. 

To the Editors:  I can't state this strongly enough:  One of the main strengths of a discussion forum is that readers have ready access to the extensive archive of articles and comments that are accrued over time.  Why bother saving all of this information if there is not a viable search function to sort through it.  This really should be a priority fix.

Don

Guys,

The Forum search function should be working now. If it is not, or you start having problems again, please let me, Matt, or Megan know.

Thanks for hanging with us.

Cheers, Aaron

Aaron,

Thanks for working hard to correct this;  your efforts are truly appreciated.  But bottom line is that it isn't working for me yet.  When I saw your response, I tried a search and was encouraged that I got results and could access the pertinent pages and return to the origin via the "back" command.  But when I entered a different search term, I got the same zero "0" results response.  I exited the web page, deleted all cookies and logged in again.  Tried a search using a common term, and after setting preferences to shown all threads, and still got the "red line of death". 

Right now, I don't know if the problem is specific to my computer or settings or if its a glitch overall.  I hope that you can resolve this problem quickly.  3 thumbs up for your effort; hang in there and I'm sure that the problems will get ironed out eventually.

Don

OK Aaron, search seems to be working fine for me this morning.  thank you; I'm a happy camper now. 

Don

Don,

Glad to hear it. Anyone else still having problems with the search function in the Forum?

Aaron

It seems to be working again. Thanks!

I have problems with the search - basically, all search options (e.g. order by newest / oldest first, or entering a date range) are ignored. Completely ignored: whatever additional options I enter,I get always the same results.

I confess that I'm using Linux as my OS, but honestly, that shouldn't make a difference...

Anyone else encountering the same problems?

SirDrake