# You Cannot Search On Your Name! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 13, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219 "2004-01-13T02:43:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/1 "2004-01-13T02:43:28Z")
Eom Eom Eom ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/2 "2004-01-13T02:46:41Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Eom Eom Eom :smack: Yet another conclusion jumped to. The technitians are in the process of re-indexing the search engine. We will be able to search when they’ve finished. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/3 "2004-01-13T02:47:29Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Eom Eom Eom They are reindexing the boards, which could take quite some time. Until then, the search engine will be less than fully functional. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/4 "2004-01-13T02:51:58Z")
I just searched on my name. It worked. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/5 "2004-01-14T23:12:53Z")
I used to have 50+ pages of posts (not including the posts lost to the Winter of our Missed Content), now only have 20 pages. Indexing, archived, or lost forever :eek: ? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/6 "2004-01-15T00:12:03Z")
Does the Winter of our Missed Content refer to the unintentional lossage that happened in December of (?) 2002, or does it refer to the earlier Big Cleanout in which all of the threads dated before 2000 were deleted? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/7 "2004-01-15T00:51:21Z")
the lossage of winter 2002 ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/8 "2004-01-15T01:30:04Z")
i tested my name, it found someone quoting me since we returned, my first post, and then a bunch of stuff from 1999 and 2000 talking about ciggarette tar. So the reindexing is just up to the beginning of 2001. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/9 "2004-01-15T04:59:45Z")
Please note that the search feature will not return completely accurate results until the reindexing is finished. This could take upto a week to get done. Until then, kindly refrain from testing the search feature, as it adds to the load on the server, what with everyone testing out their new toy to see if it does wheelies and doughnuts like the old one did. Thank you for your patience. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/10 "2004-01-16T01:03:53Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > :smack: > > Yet another conclusion jumped to. > > The technitians are in the process of re-indexing the search engine. We will be able to search when they’ve finished. I didn’t deserve that, **Lobsang** , and I will refrain from using the search function until such time as the board has been deemed free of bugs. It just took me by surprise, is all. Q ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/11 "2004-01-16T13:47:19Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Does the Winter of our Missed Content refer to the unintentional lossage that happened in December of (?) 2002, or does it refer to the earlier Big Cleanout in which all of the threads dated before 2000 were deleted? We talked about deleting a bunch of old stuff at one time, but we decided against it. It should still be around, with few exceptions. There are a few threads that got lost when we converted from UBB to vB. The UBB software had an archive feature where we’d stashed some of the good stuff we didn’t want to get lost. And vB ignored anything that was in those archive forums during the conversion process. Those threads disappeared in to the ether, but pretty much everything else is still here and available. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cannot-search-on-your-name/224219/12 "2004-01-16T15:11:32Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > I didn’t deserve that, **Lobsang** , and I will refrain from using the search function until such time as the board has been deemed free of bugs. It just took me by surprise, is all. > > Q OK I didn’t mean to offend. I was just surprised by how may people _were_ jumping to conclusions when the update was so new.