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

It’s utterly awful. I was searching for a holiday resort k know has been posted about on here and it came up with 3 irrelevant results from 10 years ago and nothing else. Google works better currently!

It comes up in date order for me and has done since the update?

Totally agree that it's a nightmare not being able to get to specific posts when I search by a key word or by a name (usually mine) - I don't want a list of the threads, I want to see the posts like before. Noted that the date things is being worked on.

Agree - it's dreadful now. Not being able to search for a post that has a word in it or for a post within a certain date range is an absolute pita. Did the testers really think this was an improvement on the previous search function?

We're not all trolls you know!😀

I was searching for a quote I had made myself yesterday but couldn't do it, so had to wade through pages of text to find it. (Someone had misquoted me, so I needed to check back to my previous comment, made a day or two earlier, before replying.)

Also, I find that I often meet the same usernames on threads - clearly people with the same interests as I do. So, if I can't spot a topic of interest on Active, I've sometimes searched using one of these names and nearly always find a topic of interest that way. Like minds and all that.

Anyway, my point is that searching usernames isn't always (or even usually) a nefarious activity @Actons.

It's reduced the troll hunting and derailment on threads, with an OP having their history searched. I think that's a good thing.

Searching without date ranges makes searching pretty much impossible. Previously I could search a single day if I wanted to (and I frequently did) so got far fewer hits.

Also if I enter a search word now, only titles with the word are found..previously any post containing the word would come up...to be fair maybe this still happens but they just get lost among thousands of other posts.

Another issue occurs when searching posts by a particular poster - there's a drop down box with usernames, but many usernames don't seem to be on it. If I type in the name (double checking spelling) it's often not recognised.

Simply put, the search function is more or less unusable now. I used to use it a lot to search for topics of interest and I just can't do that any more.

Why is it taking so long to fix?

It's unusable

I so wish it would put the most recent at the top. Just did a test search for something and the top hit was from 2009...