OK, so I was as shocked as everyone else this AM to see the new look of the board, but I think I can get used to it.
The only thing is, I usually start my SDMB day by catching up on all of the threads I’ve posted to lately, by searching for my username under the “last 5 days” and then checking all the things that come up. So I tried that this morning, and came up with nothing. Are there tricks to using this new search functionality that I need to know (i.e., my username has a space in it, which used to drive the UBB search batty two or three upgrades ago)?
Any help would be appreciated; I’d like to know how to find things again.
I can’t even search from one of my posts (namely, the one above). I click on the little “search” icon, and when all’s said and done, this is what appears:
Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.
Have I ceased to exist? Does anyone know if this new software can handle any searches at all?
Da Ace, I used {space}Ace{space}, with partial match, last 5 days, all forums and ended up with 10 threads and I think your name was in all of them.
By putting the {space} at the end, it got rid of Tracer for one (with over 3100 posts, Tracer kinda overwhelmed the list). And by putting the {space} at the beginning, it got rid of SaxFace.
So, I think that should work for you. Kind of a pain, but seems to work.
Thanks a lot. I’d tried some of the permutations Notthemama ran through, but this is a busier week at work than normal, so I didn’t have the concentrated SDMB time I’d like.
I wondered if this was a problem with two-word member names, so I tested it on Arnold Winkelried. That came up with no problem at all. (Quick, too – anybody else notice the new search function is fast?) Then I tried Ukulele Ike – fine – and Boris B – aha! didn’t work! SPOOFE Bo Diddley also doesn’t work as “exact match,” but just “SPOOFE” works on “partial match.”
Other people who don’t work: Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor, Johnny L.A., Alan Q, and neuro-trash grrrl.
Others that do: Little Nemo, Anti Pro, Chef Troy, John Corrado, Lux Fiat, saucy potato, Lord Derfel, and Drain Bead.
I guess vBulletin just doesn’t like some words for whatever reason, but at least I’ve got a workaround. I suspect there’s some sort of filter for “words,” and things like “Da” and “B” garble it up (some kinds of punctuation, too, I suspect, like hypens and apostrophes). But it’s clearly not a spell-check or anything of that nature, because non-English words and some “misspellings” it has no trouble with.
Anyone familiar with the workings of vBulletin have any idea why this happens?