Search function broken

[peteetongman]

Forum URL: aibafs.com


can it be fixed please?  thanks very very much!

[David Clark]

Hi,

Can you give us more information as to what isn't working please

[peteetongman]

Aug 9, 2014 14:02:57 GMT -8 David Clark said:

Hi,

Can you give us more information as to what isn't working please

when myself or a member tries to search for a word of phrase, they/we get zero results.

The last phrase I tri3ed was 'porch shooter', which is the title of a thread in 'United States Politics'

Any idea when a permanent fix can be applied?   this is an ongoing problem going back several months.  I see three threads about it in the last 24 hours.  i have members threatening to quit because of it, sometimes because they think their posts have been deleted or censored,

thanks

[David Clark]

The search system has undergone maintenance over the past month or so to correct the issue of inconsistent results/results sometimes not appearing. However, though it may seem like the same contiguous problem because the end result is always a similar problem, it's not. With that in mind, I hope you'll bear with us while we look further into how we can get the system running at 100% with no periods of inconsistent results.

Right now my admin utilities are offline so I won't be able to try my solutions until a little bit later, but I'll see if what I'm able to do is enough to fix it without our sysadmin's attention.

If members wish to confirm that a post of theirs still exists and the search server is not available for some reason, I would advise having them check their recent posts.