Where has advanced search gone?

Just thought I'd post to see if we're all still stuck on bold today - we are!

I couldn't find it either, @PolkadotsAndMoonbeams - not with MN search nor with Google, actually.

I did manage to find the thread by searching on your name only + Telly Addicts and then using the highly intuitive date sliders to narrow down the time range by getting them to almost overlap each other completely. It finds the thread but not the post. If I add in amnesia (which seems to be what the new search is suffering from) nothing is returned.

Given how painful it is to set up a search, the fact that you can't go back to it after you've clicked on a post to see if it's the one you're looking for is extremely annoying.

I've been testing this. I found an old post of mine (with fairly unusual words) and have been trying to find it using the new search. I've used the fact I wrote it, plus the board (Telly Addicts).

I haven't managed to get it yet.

Well I hope one day I will be able to find my own posts again in a date range otherwise I'm stuffed

I've started a thread in Site Stuff specifically for our mad bolding issue.

Screenshot for admins

Bold...

Bold! My word

I know, the same for me.

m I can’t find my own posts on Advanced Search and now I am only in bold. Apparently I think I am quoting myself or that I am very important so as to need to speak in bold or italics.

@tribpot
thank you, I have found the filters now

The only way I can find to be not-bold is to be italic!

It definitely isn't as good.

I used to be able to search posts based on a 'cluster' of words, or find my own posts based on one word plus my name and topic and it doesn't seem to work now.

I put those filters on, but don't get what I want.

Apologies for the duplicates. That seems to be a new site issue. At least I’m not bold any more.

This is so frustrating. I mainly use advanced search to find my own posts. This is so much worse than before. And why have I gone bold?!! Changing it has made no different.

This is so frustrating. I mainly use advanced search to find my own posts. This is so much worse than before. And why have I gone bold?!! Changing it has made no different.

Yes it’s very boring now, I only just got into Mumsnet over the last few months, and found it very good for advice, but now find it very bland, with too much blank spaces. I hope they revert to the old site, why change something? And not for the better.

FFS! I wish they'd fix this site! I checked several times to see if the "oooh, our server needs a cup of tea" message meant my post hadn't posted.

and now I only seem to be able to type in bold 🤷🏻‍♀️

Provide an accessible and usable alternative to the date sliders, such as manual entry of a date with some useful presets (i.e. what you had before*

they've said they are doing this

Ah yes, now I see. In the mobile view, there is a toolbar across the bottom of the screen that includes links to Active, Watching, I'm On and the option on the far right is Search. That takes you to www.mumsnet.com/search . But in the desktop view there is no such toolbar, instead there's a set of links underneath the last post to Active etc .. and not to Search.

On both mobile and desktop, there is also a search option at the very top of the page, in the website's header. This opens up a more basic search in a pop up window that overlays the page you're currently on, rather than navigating away from it.

@User7493268965 the main search does allow you to filter by topic, so you can search just in Telly Addicts. That's the one you can get to by going to www.mumsnet.com/search in a desktop browser or using the search icon at the bottom of the screen on the mobile site.

Mumsnet I'll just email my invoice for investigating all of this to save you the trouble of responding to the thread. This leaves you with some fixes to do:

• An FAQ on how the two search options work
• Provide a link in the desktop view to the main search www.mumsnet.com/search
• Provide an accessible and usable alternative to the date sliders, such as manual entry of a date with some useful presets (i.e. what you had before)

It works for me on the mobile site so maybe there's hope. I can put in multiple words in the search line, including names. The results are in date order. But the slide bar for dates is still way too clunky.

I often used it to find threads on older TV series that I missed at the time but nothing really comes up now in my searches. It used to be very handy to be able to search just on telly addicts

@Southeastdweller can you view the advanced search page if you go here? www.mumsnet.com/search I think the problem is there's no link to it from anywhere on the site.

@AnastasiaRomanov you should be able to enter a username into the search bar either on the quick search popup or the advanced search page

I can’t find any posts by username now. I really hate the way this site operates now .