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#1 abelard lindsay

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Posted 18 June 2013 - 10:56 AM

I noticed forum search doesn't work anymore. Google is fairly useless because it's incomplete and can't be time filtered and/or time sorted. Can you at least enable it for members like me that have donated?
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#2 niner

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Posted 18 June 2013 - 11:16 AM

I hope this was just an oversight. At any rate, I'm in complete agreement with abelard. Google is absolutely not a substitute for the built-in forum search. We frequently need to filter by user name or restrict the search to specific areas. We really need to get that back.
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#3 caliban

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Posted 18 June 2013 - 12:05 PM

last item under "topic search" in the menu

#4 abelard lindsay

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Posted 19 June 2013 - 12:04 AM

last item under "topic search" in the menu


When you go to that form and hit the search button it ignores the form and brings up the Google search instead of using the board's built in search.

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Posted 19 June 2013 - 01:51 AM

sorry about that, should be fixed now

#6 niner

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Posted 19 June 2013 - 01:56 AM

Was this change announced anywhere? If so, it looks like a lot of us missed it...

#7 Michael

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Posted 31 July 2013 - 02:47 PM

I'm not sure if this is the same search page that was previously disabled, but the radio button that previously selected between searching for individual posts vs. entire threads on teh search page I use recently disappeared. This is a significant PITA, as it means that if you're looking for something on biogenesis, you'll get every thread where biogenesis is mentioned, even if it's one post on the fourth page of the thread on some silly supplement where someone says "I buy mine from Biogenesis Nutritionals." Can this please be restored?

#8 rwac

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Posted 31 July 2013 - 05:23 PM

Michael, the radio button seems to be right at the bottom, below "Find in Forum"
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Is this what you were looking for?

Edited by rwac, 31 July 2013 - 05:23 PM.


#9 Michael

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Posted 31 July 2013 - 06:47 PM

Michael, the radio button seems to be right at the bottom, below "Find in Forum"

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Is this what you were looking for?

Er ... yes, it is!

I sweardagawd that wasn't there the last time I went looking for it a couple of days ago ....

If someone did something: thanks! (And thanks for the pointer, rwac).

#10 niner

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Posted 31 July 2013 - 07:15 PM

We could avoid a lot of confusion and wasted time if significant changes in the interface were documented in a way that the community was likely to see.
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#11 BarrelBoy

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Posted 28 August 2013 - 06:54 PM

I'd also like to suggest a search for keywords/phrases within individual topics. I mean some stretch out over hundreds of pages and it takes a while to just get to a certain page in some of those longer ones.
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#12 IVDaDon1

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 06:04 PM

I agree 100 %

the old search options were alot better than google search

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Posted 30 August 2013 - 06:24 PM

the old search options were alot better than google search



The old search is still around in the left sidebar.
"Topic Search"/"Forum Search"
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#14 IVDaDon1

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Posted 31 August 2013 - 04:22 PM

the old search options were alot better than google search



The old search is still around in the left sidebar.
"Topic Search"/"Forum Search"


ok thanks..





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