What the bloody hell have you done to the search function??????

Why fix what simply wasn’t broken?!

Just searched on a poster who has started a thread as wanted to read a thread she referred to

nope - search doesn’t pick her up as a poster who has ever started a thread. She has. Today!

Why on earth did you get rid of Advanced Search? I just don't get why you'd do that.

And what is with the check list of old timer posters that come up as suggestions when I try and search by username? Nappyaddict hasn't been here since about 2013 for example, how were these suggestions picked?

Thank you

@SueMumsnet Thanks for returning advanced search

Very helpful thanks

Please confirm whether any search functionality feature has been removed?

I don't troll huntbut Ido search by username and it's a very usefulfunction. Advanced Search was never the best though I thought the worst bit was the Topics search part - the drop down menu needed to be looked at - but it was good enough. It's just been getting steaadily worse with every bit oftinkering.

It is absolutely terrible. The previous version was much better.

Ah, not just me then! I tried to search a medical condition and couldn’t make it work, on any level.

If I search for my own posts I get no, zero, results. This is unsurprising as the date range is set 01/01/1970- 01/01/1970, with no obvious way to change it (the sliders don't do anything).

I'd post a screenshot of the search results but I can't add images now. Clicking on Add image doesn't do anything.

Also it only gives you the users that are like the words you’re trying to put in, not the actual words. So if I typed in “supermum20182747” it will return results for about 10 users with super mum in their name but not the one you want

Also, why does it bring up words that are spelled similarly? I wanted to search for a thread I’d seen a while ago on Savita Halappanavar, so I put “Savita” in the search field. I got thousands of results about sanitary towels etc.

I'm very confused about the search function

I wanted to search for a particular famous person to see if there'd been any posts recently.

The date range offered is...

01/01/70 to 01/01/70

And there's no way at all to change that?

So basically... there is no search function at all for me.

Mine wasn't working yesterday but is now, on iPhone app.

This. I have tried searching for threads that I know I've been on and not been able to find them. I still can't quite believe the update was launched with the search functionality as it is (i.e. not functioning).

Likewise. Honestly it was appalling before the update but now its just not even worth having.

It's almost like MNHQ went out of their way to make it worse.

Yeah, I use Google+Mumsnet to search for specific topics of interest. I used to do that anyway as the AS function wasn't perfect.

Sorry I agree too, the search is really bad. Yesterday I tried to use the search to find a thread about a specific thing and it came up with 3 threads from over a year ago.
I used to use advanced search a lot (rather than the search bar) and it was really good at finding threads, especially from specific dates or from talk categories. It didn't always work well so sometimes using Google was better, but still a vast improvement on the current search.

Please could you at least tell us what the new search function SHOULD do?

yes atm it’s shite
but I’m ok with that as long as ultimately same if not better functionality than before the “upgrade” (in the loosest sense of the word)

Exactly this.
And often a poster will say something like ‘you may remember my previous thread’, and the previous thread will have all the useful backstory in, so it’s useful to be able to find it so the OP doesn’t have to repeat all the details on the new thread.

It's not being able to find posts by username that I hate. And no I'm not doing it to trollhunt. Sometimes it's my own posts I want to find, sometimes it's posters who I just find interesting, and sometimes it's posters with the same taste in books or something.
I don't want a link to the whole thread that can be 40 pages long. I want to be able to see the start of the post, click on it, and go straight to it.

I didn't think it was possible to make Advanced Search worse. I was wrong.

I’ve stopped bothering searching anything now as it’s too much aggro. It’s unusable.