Search function not working for thread titles

[Fanible]

Forum URL: comingsoon.boards.net

If you do the general search function in the top right of a forum, it yields no results.  Advance search via the "thread title contains" yields no results.  However doing an advanced search via "at least one of the words" you can find topics, so the issue appears to be only affecting thread titles and not posts themselves.

[Brian]

Hi, Fanible.

I've submitted a post reindex request to the search server associated with your forum. Can you let us know if your results differ a few minutes after this post?

[Fanible]

Some things are showing up now, but not all. Not sure if common words/names have anything to do with it.

Oddly enough, a search for "Doctor Who" in the upper right of our TV forum has the thread showing up now, but if you do an advanced search "thread title contains", nothing comes up. Says no threads found.

Another try I did was "Stranger Things". It doesn't show up in the upper right search bar or in the title thread advanced search. Nothing at all.

So it's kind of hit and miss depending on what you're trying to search for. Maybe it'll clear up after a little longer.

[Brian]

"Who" is in our list of stopwords which don't get indexed, so searching for "Doctor Who" will yield no results because no thread titles will ever be indexed as that combination, versus searching for just "Doctor."

It should be noted that a stopword followed by a symbol can be indexed, so if a post in the thread contains "Doctor Who." a post search will match against that versus "Doctor Who" with no period which doesn't get the word "who" indexed.

[Fanible]

And Stranger Things? Is the word "things" preventing a search?  If so, would a simple fix to allow people to find it would be to add something like a period after the word in the thread title?  Like, adding a period after "Who", resulting in it showing up when searching titles.

[Brian]

"Things" is also a stopword.

Adding a period would cause the word to be indexed.

[Fanible]

Thank you.