# Message Board Search **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 1, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913 "2000-03-01T22:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/1 "2000-03-01T22:45:00Z")
Is the message board search function down again? I haven’t been able to get it to work for a few days now. * * * My board got hacked and all I got was this lousy sig file… ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/2 "2000-03-02T00:09:00Z")
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.” * * * But where were the Spiders? ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/3 "2000-03-02T03:05:00Z")
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. * * * \>\ \_ **L\_\_\_L** ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/4 "2000-03-02T04:17:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/5 "2000-03-02T15:21:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/6 "2000-03-03T01:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. * * * \>\ \_ **L\_\_\_L** ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2000, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/7 "2000-03-05T06:20:00Z")
I can search MPSIMS/About/etc easily but it gets stuck on GQ. just offering that information in case it helps. * * * Mayor of [Snerdville](http://fathom.org/snerdville), the home of Mortimer Snerd “I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.” –Wayne Knight ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2000, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/8 "2000-03-05T06:45:00Z")
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.) * * * Tom~ ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2000, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-search/913/9 "2000-03-07T01:04:00Z")
Related, sorta: Why does the link “comment on this answer” at the end of CA column take me to [boards.sd.com](http://boards.sd.com)? Where do I go from there if I want to comment of one of his columns? * * * We cheat the other guys & pass the savings along to you!