MNHQ - Is the search function broken or something?

[theSuburbanDryad]

Being a suspicious Dryad I tried to search on a poster, who had clearly posted (otherwise I wouldn't have anything to be suspicious of) but when i ran the search it came up with 0 messages!

Am I just being thick or is there something up with the search function broken? I ran a search on my own name and it came up with over 500 messages so it's obviously working on some people!

It has been like that for a few days. I did report it, but I think it was overlooked in the recent trollery.

Sometimes it says 0, sometimes it will pick up a few, but clearly not all, posts.

I have found it happening on at least half a dozen posters lapin.

Lapin - no, i know what's been going with Cod.

Will FB you if you want to know but obviously don't want to post on here!!

Search my name (this version) and the AIBU topic for example.

It brings up one post but I posted 3 times on that thread.

So it is obviously missing posts somehow. In some cases, that means no posts show up at all.

I tried it earlier (nuffin suspicious, was doing looking for something I posted on more than 51 threads ago).

not found.......altho I could always just look properly without cheating using search on myself

altho......maybe I searched under the worng name, going on how many names I have been thro recently[girn]

hmmm I think I know what you mean, was it on the dog thread?

pmsl at ggg on that thread ' the famous person you are referring to was Jesus'

I agree it's broken and not finding all the posts

thanks for flagging this up. will get BigTech to check what's going on and post once I know

DWP - yes, was on the dog thread.

(Glad to see i'm not the only suspicious one here! )

This should be fixed now. Could you let me know if you see it happening again please?

Mucho thanks.

Nope, still not picking up all messages YMT.

YetiTechi has broken it again

SaTanicGore, could you give me an example please?

See my post 10.54 on this thread.

Still applies.

That thread only includes one post by you, I can't see any others - including by searching using Ctrl-F in browser. Mumsnet Search shows only one entry. Did you perhaps post under a different username?

There are now 2 AIBU threads I have posted on under this name.

The one you mention and this one

Both threads show up for me when I search my name+AIBU, but only show as 2 posts, not the 5 that there are in total.

Although I have just spotted why they aren't getting picked up.

Search always ignored upper and lower case letters. I think it is now distinguishing between them.

No, ignore that about upper/lower case.

Doesn't matter if I search on SaTanic or Satanic, it is still missing some posts.

And apparently sometimes threads if you can only see one of the threads nannynick.

I see it happening on my screen as well... it's not showing two of posts from 10 October. Maybe there was a glitch in the indexing on Friday.