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

Hi all - thanks for the messages here. We honestly didn't go out of our way to make the Search function worse. There are a lot of different user requirements for Search - some people just want to find the most recent threads about baby carriers, for example. Our main reason for changing it was to make the basic Search function (which is used by most users) work better for most people. It is faster and it does bring up more recent relevant results than the old Search function.

We've read all of the feedback on the new Search and there are a few things we plan to do very soon (in the next few weeks):

1 - we'll bring back advanced search which will let you search posts
2 - we'll improve the date picker for basic search
3 - we'll make basic search remember your search filters when you hit back after reading one of the results
4 - we'll add "search by thread title" into basic search
5 - we'll make it more obvious how to get to the basic search page

Sorry again for the frustration this is causing.

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