# Search timer glitches **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 25, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328 "2013-05-25T16:41:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/1 "2013-05-25T16:41:42Z")
Last 2-3 days, I go to the Advanced Search page, enter a parameter and execute the search only to be told “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in xx seconds”, when in fact it was my first search of the day. First couple times, I figured I’d inadvertently hit Return and then also clicked the search button, thus re-executing the search request, or clicked twice, etc; but then I became meticulously careful because I got tired of this, and no matter what I do it insists that I just DID a search and must wait for 120 secs to go by. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/2 "2013-05-25T17:45:30Z")
Same for me for the past day or so. I’ve had to retry as many as four times before getting to the right place. And in my case I have to go through a page indicating lost connection to the site. Refreshing the page fixes that but the other issue (the one in the OP) still hangs around. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/3 "2013-05-25T17:59:31Z")
Are you clicking on “new posts”? That actually does a search even though it doesn’t take you to the search page. ETA: Hasn’t happened to me, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/4 "2013-05-26T15:43:10Z")
It’s been happening to me too. And no, It’s not due to doing Searches after clicking on New Posts. All sorts of weird glitches have started popping up here. It really feels like the Board may be on its last legs. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/5 "2013-05-26T22:13:27Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > All sorts of weird glitches have started popping up here. It really feels like the Board may be on its last legs. There was (maybe still is) a recent thread in GQ or IMHO or somewhere, discussing the possibility of genetic modification, to create a breed of super-hamsters. The obligatory joke, of course, was _Khan Noonien Hamster!_ They need to get going on this and get it done. We need them. ---
**Author:** ![Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocodiles_And_Boulevards)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/6 "2013-05-28T19:31:15Z")
I am experiencing this problem for the first time today, but it also happens to be the first time I’ve used Firefox to browse SDMB in a long time. I was using Chrome, but in Chrome searches were simply not returning any results at all… I tried changing the timeout period on Firefox to 120 seconds to no avail. After a few seconds, the search automatically goes to “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in xx seconds” with the “xx” usually being 88 or 89 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/7 "2013-05-28T23:42:39Z")
i’m getting the same behavior. i also have experienced another timer artifact over a long time. if i have a reply window open for a bit (don’t know actual time but possibly 120 sec and longer) when i hit ‘post reply’ then i get ‘must wait more than 120 sec between postings’ even though the posting goes through as shown in another tab. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/8 "2013-05-29T00:16:13Z")
I’m getting “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in 88 seconds.” ---
**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:** [May 29, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/9 "2013-05-29T00:23:10Z")
> [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](#): > > I am experiencing this problem for the first time today, but it also happens to be the first time I’ve used Firefox to browse SDMB in a long time. I was using Chrome, but in Chrome searches were simply not returning any results at all… > > I tried changing the timeout period on Firefox to 120 seconds to no avail. After a few seconds, the search automatically goes to “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in xx seconds” with the “xx” usually being 88 or 89 seconds. No, the choice is on our side. The server is being pushed so hard and by so many people trying to make connections that the system is dropping tasks. This probably will not improve until we get a new server. Plans are in the works for that but I cannot tell you when exactly this will happen. But it is in the works. We ask for your patience until we get to that place. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/10 "2013-05-29T03:10:13Z")
Thank you. Since **Ed’s** thread, I’ve been trying to be patient. But I’ll report here the Read/Unread Timer has gone out on me twice in the last 12 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crocodiles_And_Boulevards)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/11 "2013-05-29T14:54:15Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > No, the choice is on our side. > > The server is being pushed so hard and by so many people trying to make connections that the system is dropping tasks. > > This probably will not improve until we get a new server. Plans are in the works for that but I cannot tell you when exactly this will happen. But it is in the works. We ask for your patience until we get to that place. No, it’s alright. Thanks for keeping us updated. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/12 "2013-05-31T03:28:57Z")
This suuuuuuuuuuucks _pouts_ ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/13 "2013-05-31T16:57:31Z")
> [@Crocodiles\_And\_Boulevards](#): > > After a few seconds, the search automatically goes to “This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in xx seconds” with the “xx” usually being 88 or 89 seconds. So far today, I’ve had three 88s and one 89. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/14 "2013-05-31T17:04:01Z")
Please try again in 1 seconds. Heh, I get this one all the time. Lately it’ll search fine for any term or other poster but it fails repeatedly whenever I search on my username as I look to see if I need to reply to anyone. It gives me a network outage window from any different device I use. No biggie, being a recent development I’m sure the server fix will address it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/15 "2013-06-01T02:09:39Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > So far today, I’ve had three 88s and one 89. And then there’s 68, which is when they do you and you owe them 1. > [@lieu](#): > > Please try again in 1 seconds. Plus that’s grammatically incorrect! That should NOT be plural! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/16 "2013-06-01T13:51:09Z")
Just got this too — it said I had to wait 114 more seconds when I clicked my own username to “Find All Posts By” myself. For a moment I thought I had dementia. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/17 "2013-06-06T15:50:41Z")
I’ve started going to my own profile and clicking the “Find all posts by AHunter3” link which doesn’t seem prone to the weird 66 second error. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/18 "2013-06-15T01:41:11Z")
Though many of the other problems have been fixed, Search is still not working. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/19 "2013-06-15T13:45:35Z")
Yes, I am still being told I have to wait 88 seconds or thereabouts on my first Search. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2013, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328/20 "2013-06-15T15:41:07Z")
Jerry did say that not all problems would be solved immediately and that this was the first step in a process, a process that might well take some time. We are sorry for your inconvenience and hope things resolve soon. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/search-timer-glitches/659328.md?page=2)