Can the Search feature be fixed? - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Chocolate Moose · 04-24-2012, 02:24 PM

thank you

Zoneboy · 04-24-2012, 02:32 PM

What's wrong with it?

Chocolate Moose · 04-24-2012, 02:36 PM

if you click the down arrow next to search, it brings up shaded boxes that you can't write anything in.

TJ · 05-21-2012, 12:15 AM

Search appears to be working fine. Try clearing out your cookies and temporary files.

icecream · 05-12-2025, 12:15 PM

The search feature doesn't work when trying to find a specific thread. I know there is a long running thread about shows that changed networks (not the TMC one that doesn't have a response), but typing that title in didn't get what I needed. It was mostly a bunch of random threads that came up, nothing to do with what I searched. This has happened before with trying to find specific threads but they aren't revealed.

Dude111 · 05-12-2025, 12:25 PM

Ya they really me$$ed up the search feature in 3.x .. Search worked fine in VB2.x and lower..........

TJ · 05-12-2025, 12:36 PM

You need to use specific search terms. I searched the General TV section for Taxi. I found the thread.

Searching for more than one network brings it up.

Shows That Aired Originals on More than One Network

There's also this thread with even more replies.

What shows switched Networks during run

The search index needs to be rebuilt at some point. There were many common words (such as down and under) that were omitted from the search database up until a few years ago.

Dude111 · 05-13-2025, 02:05 AM

Yea search was much better on 2.x Todd....

I have had trouble on various vb3 sites with search,its really sad......

I love ya buddy!!

James28 · 07-07-2025, 01:06 PM

I have been a Chromebook user for the past few years, and while I'm accessing the "View New Posts" page of this forum from a different website, I sometimes get an error message stating that this forum requires you to wait 30 seconds between searches, even though I've only done one search (that is, trying to access that "View New Posts" page).

TJ · 07-07-2025, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by James28

I have been a Chromebook user for the past few years, and while I'm accessing the "View New Posts" page of this forum from a different website, I sometimes get an error message stating that this forum requires you to wait 30 seconds between searches, even though I've only done one search (that is, trying to access that "View New Posts" page).

Are you clicking on View Today's Active Threads also? That would be two searches. I haven't seen this error.

icecream · 07-19-2025, 01:19 AM

Yet another time when I searched for an exact thread title of something I posted a few months ago and nothing came up with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine vs. Babylon 5. In case I had reversed the order nothing showed for Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine nothing was there either. Nothing on the Sci-Fi board as well.

Dude111 · 07-19-2025, 02:13 AM

Ya Search can be aggravating icecream!!

Have ya tried using stars honey??

Like moon**** (Thats supposed to pull up anything with MOON at the start)

TJ · 07-19-2025, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by icecream

Yet another time when I searched for an exact thread title of something I posted a few months ago and nothing came up with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine vs. Babylon 5. In case I had reversed the order nothing showed for Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine nothing was there either. Nothing on the Sci-Fi board as well.

Searching entire posts for Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine brings it up as the first result. 5 is omitted from the search.

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search: 5

It's also the first result when searching titles only.

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

James28 · 07-22-2025, 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TJ

Are you clicking on View Today's Active Threads also? That would be two searches. I haven't seen this error.

No, I'm visiting "View New Threads" only, and this error will still occur.

TJ · 08-30-2025, 10:29 AM

I'm rebuilding the search index today. It hasn't been rebuilt since we last upgraded the software in 2018. I had tried to do it a few times in the admin control panel, but it would run out of memory and timeout. I'm doing it in the command line, so it should work without any interruptions. Around 100,000 posts have been processed so far.

There were quite a few words which weren't included in the search index up a few years ago. It should return more and better results once it finishes. It might take a full day or two for it to complete.

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