Message Board Search

[tanstaafl]

Is the message board search function down again? I haven't been able to get it to work for a few days now.

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My board got hacked and all I got was this lousy sig file...

[rowrrbazzle]

Me too. Today I tried accessing the board with Netscape. When I tried to search, it waited for 5 minutes, then I got a dialog box saying "Document contains no data."

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But where were the Spiders?

[jab1]

I got a successful search the other day, but it took twenty-four minutes.

When I realized it was so slow, I opened another window and read some other threads.

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[Ringo]

I'm afraid the search function has experienced some sort of relapse. It was actually working for a while there, and now works far better than it did, but it's now hitting potholes that it didn't in the past. I've run a couple of searches, on all open forums, where I watched and it bagged a few hits in this forum, a few more in that (searches that I knew shold produce something), but produced zero results at the end.

[TubaDiva]

Another problem to be investigated and fixed, obviously.

I'll alert the appropriate folks.

Since the message board search engine is an integral part of the UBB software, it's really a UBB problem, probably related to the recent software upgrade. I'll see what I can find out about that as well.

Sorry for your inconvenience.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
The Straight Dope
about ready to fix this software with a hammer.

[jab1]

Originally posted by TubaDiva:
Administrator
The Straight Dope
about ready to fix this software with a hammer.

A little frustrated, are we, TD? Can't really blame you.

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[Daniel]

I can search MPSIMS/About/etc easily but it gets stuck on GQ.

just offering that information in case it helps.

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Mayor of Snerdville, the home of Mortimer Snerd

"I'm just too much for human existence -- I should be animated."
--Wayne Knight

[tomndebb]

I had a similar experience on a broad search. I ran one against all forums. It ran a while so I busied myself with other things. When I checked again, I had no hits. I had wanted to return to a specific post, so I hit the browser's "back" button a few times. As I passed each of the intermediate screens recording the hits for each forum, I saw non-zero tallies. I went back through again and noted which fora had hits, searched each of those fora separately, and found what I was looking for. (It took a long time.)

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[Patty O'Furniture]

Related, sorta:

Why does the link "comment on this answer" at the end of CA column take me to boards.sd.com? Where do I go from there if I want to comment of one of his columns?

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