Let’s say you’re searching for all occurrences of your own username (or that of someone else) in a long thread to which you (or they) posted quite a bit.
You click the magnifying glass, input the username you wish to search for, go with the option “in this thread”, and there you go, a list of the posts in that thread made by (or referring to) that person.
But you can’t scroll the list. If the number of hits creates a list longer than your screen is tall, you can’t get to the results farther down. The results display doesn’t have its own scroll bar. Nor is there a “page 2” button or anthing of that ilk.
That’s not in a thread, that’s a category.
If you enter a long thread and search for your/someone’s name, it
doesn’t find all of them and there is no “More” at the end. (although i am
able to scroll, unlike the OP)
You can scroll the list. Or at least I can. The problem is local to you.
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Advanced search can be a little better, e.g. https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=@AHunter3 order:latest topic:799626 (just picked that one random topic because you had a lot of responses there) will show you your replies in that topic, most recent first, on a regular webpage instead of the small popup window.
But it takes a few clicks to get to this advanced search:
First go to the topic you want to search and click the magnifying glass like usual
Type @ followed by the username you want to look up
Wait a few seconds for the 🔍 [their username] in this topic to show up at the bottom
Click on it with your mouse (do NOT just push enter, because that searches all topics and not just the current one)
But wait, you’re not done yet! Once the results show up, click the advanced search icon at the far right of the search box… it looks like a bunch of horizontal sliders, like on a soundboard.
Only then will the advanced search page load, prefilled to that topic and your username. Here you can change the sort order if you’d like (probably to “Latest Post”, which will let you see the most recent ones at the top.
Here’s a video showing the process (sorry, this video will self-destruct after 24 hours… annoying unrelated bug):
Alternatively, you can just bookmark that URL (https://boards.straightdope.com/search?q=@AHunter3 order:latest topic:XXXXXXX) or set it as a custom search engine in your browser and replace the XXXXXXXX with the topic ID you want to search. The topic ID is that set of numbers immediately following the topic name in the URL, like 1015003 for the topic we’re currently in.
I am aware of Advanced Search but as far as I knew, Advanced Search can’t be pointed to search within a single specified thread. I see from Reply’s, ermm, reply, that there does appear to be a way to do it, thanks for that! I’ll go try that.
I suspect your underlying problem is the Sam’s simple theme. It’s made “simple” by hiding a lot of the built-in functionality of every Discourse page. It’s the dumbed-down “training wheels” version of Discourse.
I found something else interesting… if you click on a user’s avatar (their user icon, like the yellow arrow thing for mine or the sex symbol for @AHunter3), it will sometimes have a button on the right side that says "[funnel] X posts in topic". Clicking on that takes you to yet another way to browse that user’s posts in this topic — better than either the quick search or advanced search, IMHO.
Problem is… that button isn’t always there. I’m not sure why. Maybe the user has to have at least 2 posts in a topic before it shows up? But when it’s there, it’s a much nicer way to see their replies.
IIRC, it also doesn’t work if the user’s profile is hidden. IIRC the mods changed the default for new users to unhidden, but have not done any kind of mass update for the many, many users who have a hidden profile but don’t know or care that they do.
