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V.T. Eric Layton

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V.T. Eric Layton

Well, on top of all the other little bugaboos we've all been finding with this board lately, I just realized that Search is not working at all. It returns no results for even the simplest search on a single topic.

 

There is something seriously kerflooey about this board these days. Should someone contact Scot about this. Is it worth bothering with? I imagine that one day Scot is just going to let this place drop. It costs him $$$ to keep it up and there are so few folks here these days.

 

Hmm... I dunno... :(

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Well I think that the problem is that we are using a seriously outdated version of IP Board without a valid key. Besides the domain fee and hosting fee, I doubt that it is costing him very much. I really do not know what to do at this point.

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Strange:

 

When I first read the first post in this topic, I tested with a search for "Microsoft".

There were no results.

 

I came back a few minutes ago and ran the same search.

I got 105 results.

 

Like the message and notification icons, the problem appears to be intermittent.

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V.T. Eric Layton

Nope. Didn't work for me. I'm searching for "VPN" within the Security area of the forums and I can see two or three threads with that topic, but the search says nothing there about VPN. Weird.

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When I first logged in today, I could see that I had a "notification".

Clicking on the icon just got me a spinner.

 

I opened this topic and saw that my last post had a "like".

I scrolled up to the top, and clicked on the icon,

All my recent notifications since 12/21/18 were displayed, including the above "like".

~~~EDIT~~~

A search for "Microsoft" yielded 104 results, one less than yesterday, in spite of the fact that I added one in my last post (it was listed).

~~~EDIT~~~

After I made the last "EDIT", I ran another identical search.

Now, it's only 103 results... lost another one, by adding one.

Edited by Pete!
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When I search for "VPN" I get zero hits. But if I search for "VPNs" I get 69.

 

I know that some boards are configured to ignore 1,2 and 3 letter words (i.e. you don't want to see every post that contains "the" or "a")

 

Is it possible that this is what this board is doing?

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