...is not working properly, is it? I use it a lot to find the posts I know I have read concerning the problems I describe in my Stackman stories. It could be working better, however. When I search for words and terms that I find in even the most recent posts, the search engine often overlooks them. (I am talking about terms like "spell", "cast", "vanish", etc. that should not just be discarded because they are too common). I have searched for words, that I had just written in recent posts myself, and it did not find them.

I tried to search the forum for any post ever written by Radek. It came up with three. I then searched for posts written by Radek containing words he has often used (though not at all common words) and the search engine came up with none.

And yes I search on the W&W Forum, I search by any date, and I am sure about the spelling and even the use of Capital and lower-case letters.

Has anyone experienced a similar problem?

Well there was a bug in the directory function. Ziroc fixed that yesterday but perhaps there is also a bug in the search function since the forum upgrade. You could post a thread in the General Discussion. Ziroc is more likely to notice it there. Otherwise you could try to PM him about it but I'm not sure Z checks his PMs. E-mail is bound to work if you want to notify him about this. After all he is the only one with the power to fix this. Well, tehre is Choc as well but let's not bring him into this... [img]graemlins/blueblink.gif[/img]

[ 08-27-2003, 06:07 PM: Message edited by: WillowIX ]

Hmmm.... I just did a search for "stackman" and it came up with a huge number of entries (including all of stackman's adventures). A search for "missy hissy" came up with all appropriate topics.

I suspect words like spell, cast, and vanish are too common for the search engine. It probably triggers better off of proper names and the like.

If you suspect there's an issue, though, email Ziroc or post something on General Discussions. It'll get answered there [img]smile.gif[/img]