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Can't search

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hoxtonchick · 27/02/2004 23:46

Is anyone else having problems searching the boards? Either something's not quite right, or I'm losing it completely, but searches only seem to go back a few days. It's not my computer as I managed to briefly nick dp's laptop to check. Help!

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suzywong · 27/02/2004 23:48

come in the bar hoxtonchick

SueW · 28/02/2004 07:55

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Original poster
hoxtonchick · 28/02/2004 08:32

Glad it's not just me Sue. Hope tech will see this & help us out.

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MNHQ
tech · 01/03/2004 11:30

Hello all,
We've limited the searches to the last week for the moment. It should all be back at the weekend.

Regards,
Tech

Original poster
hoxtonchick · 01/03/2004 11:35

thank you!

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WideWebWitch · 01/03/2004 23:29

Ah, that explains why I'd apparently only posted on 10 threads ever or something when I searched just now. I thought that couldn't be right.

Original poster
hoxtonchick · 01/03/2004 23:31

it scared me too, www!

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Kayleigh · 05/03/2004 11:44

aaah glad I found this thread. Thought I was going mad !

zebra · 07/03/2004 22:30

...Which weekend would that be, Tech?

Ghosty · 08/03/2004 06:36

Um ... does anyone know what happened to 'Active Conversations' ...? I click it and it seems there are no active conversations! Is this the same problem as the search problems?

MNHQ
tech · 08/03/2004 07:00

Hi Ghosty,
No, we've been doing some work on the server overnight. If you try it now, it should be OK.

Regards,
Tech

MNHQ
tech · 08/03/2004 08:13

Hello all,
We are part-way through restoring all the old messages. They are currently back in the topic lists and so on and you can read them. The new search facility - to make it easier to find them - will be up in the next couple of days.

Regards,
Tech

bossykate · 08/03/2004 21:12

thanks, tech. i've been searching for my old thread on composting without success...

spacemonkey · 13/03/2004 20:31

Is that new search facility I see before me?

Original poster
hoxtonchick · 13/03/2004 20:41

wah-hey. thanks tech.

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Janh · 13/03/2004 20:59

Yeaaaaah! I just spotted it too. Tech, you are a WHIZZ!!!

tigermoth · 15/03/2004 07:30

tech, how can I search for archived threads by author name?

I can see threads that include the name of the author in the text of the message (yippee - that's 500 of them for me). But how can I find threads I contributed to where my name didn't appear in the actual text?

PS a big thanks for getting search up and running!

Original poster
hoxtonchick · 15/03/2004 07:38

tigermoth (another one to add to your score ), i think all you have to do is put the nickname in the name field, but don't change any of the other settings. it worked for me, anyway.... hth

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tigermoth · 16/03/2004 12:18

thanks - I did as you said and it worked. Strangely however I have exactly 500 postings listed under my author name - the exact same number as in the name in message text search. I assume that tech hasn't put all the old threads into search yet, so I get just the most recent 500 - still that's plenty to be going on with.

MNHQ
tech · 17/03/2004 19:41

Hi Tigermoth,
It just limits the results to 500 maximum. There should be a message at the top saying "your search matched more than 500 messages. You may wish to refine it." or something similar.

I just searched on your name and it said
"Found 2059 matching messages.Your search matched more than 500 messages. You may wish to refine it. "

Regards,
Tech

zebra · 17/03/2004 20:08

Hymph... am I the only one who is still having trouble searching?

MNHQ
tech · 17/03/2004 21:05

Hi Zebra,
What's the problem you are having?

roisin · 17/03/2004 21:13

When did Mumsnet start? Just done a search on myself (have had 3 different nicknames) and realised I date back to 2000, which is earlier that I'd thought! Feel positively geriatric now.

justiner · 17/03/2004 23:23

Roisin we launched in March 2000. Am wondering who you were then... in those days we had time to read everything and Carrie and I spent quite a lot of hours answering eachothers questions! Now we don't have the time to even post them

roisin · 18/03/2004 08:56

You got some good early publicity then: I read about it in the Sunday Times magazine, I think, and my first post was towards the end of 2000. (kmg)

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