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What a screw up.
impposter 49 Reviews 82 reads
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I've noticed the problem but I didn't know the details and specific dates. I can't even find my own posts anymore!  
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I hope they fix it soon. Either with a rollback to whatever was working before OR just provide a simple boolean text search of the entire forum dbase.

Posted By: BigPapasan

You can no longer search for posts which contain key words.  Try it - look for common words such as "provider," "hobbyist" or "website."  You won't find any listings after 11/30/2021.  
   
   
 You can still search for all posts by the poster's name but you can't search for a specific word that a poster said after 11/30/2021.  
   
   
 It probably isn't a function that anyone will miss since no one seems to have known it is no longer available.  
 Hey, perfectstorm, where you at?!

You can no longer search for posts which contain key words.  Try it - look for common words such as "provider," "hobbyist" or "website."  You won't find any listings after 11/30/2021.

 
You can still search for all posts by the poster's name but you can't search for a specific word that a poster said after 11/30/2021.

 
It probably isn't a function that anyone will miss since no one seems to have known it is no longer available.
Hey, perfectstorm, where you at?!

And the site was slow?

 
The board posts are held in a database. Something happened during that week. Something that caused a full-fledged rollback in database and hence many threads fully disappearing (and not just held out of public view like usually).  

 
Since then, whatever measures were implemented, it does look like you cannot search for new posts via search feature. This could because "new" posts aren't indexed, aren't indexed for search (using some api like elasticsearch) or something along these lines.

Don’t know if this is new or not but I question why the subject line needs to be a required field in order to send a post.

It's because TER says so and they own the site.

It's probably because each post generates a url that has subject concatenated with post ID.
So the subject must be nonempty to generate the prefix

John_Laroche71 reads

I was just searching by keyword for a topic that I remember was discussed a month or so ago. no results. this explains it.

I've noticed the problem but I didn't know the details and specific dates. I can't even find my own posts anymore!  
.
I hope they fix it soon. Either with a rollback to whatever was working before OR just provide a simple boolean text search of the entire forum dbase.

Posted By: BigPapasan

You can no longer search for posts which contain key words.  Try it - look for common words such as "provider," "hobbyist" or "website."  You won't find any listings after 11/30/2021.  
   
   
 You can still search for all posts by the poster's name but you can't search for a specific word that a poster said after 11/30/2021.  
   
   
 It probably isn't a function that anyone will miss since no one seems to have known it is no longer available.  
 Hey, perfectstorm, where you at?!

You need a fulltext index to run full-text searches.

Right. I've been suggesting that for a few years ... if I can find my own posts about it. Flat text can take up disk space which is cheap but it's fast and easy to search (low demand on the CPU).

Posted By: team_rocket_qwerty
Re: What a screw up.
You need a fulltext index to run full-text searches.

Did a name search 2 days ago and the posts came up.

 
So, I guess you can still search using a name.

Not sure what’s going on but I kind of give up trying to figure out what’s happening at TER. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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