Is your Search function broken?
- Thread starter Cuebacca
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ugh you're right, my first logout test used words that weren't specific enough so it looked like I was getting too many results, but in fact I was getting the results I should have. When I logged out and tested with robocop AND monkey, the results are exactly 1 post. And I can even drop the "and", it still seems to default to giving results with both those terms. And I saw no differences between my logged out search settings and my logged in settings.
Here's what I don't get... if it's a bug, it seems like a major one, and it would be easy to find people reporting it and explaining workarounds/patches, or at least an official page on vbulletin's forums that says "We're working on it". But on those forums I see nothing at all about fixing this issue. A few google results showed people griping about the problem, but they claim there's no fix. Also they're not on the same modern version of vbulletin and they never mentioned the logout trick. I wonder if somehow you're the first to notice that logging out makes it work properly?
Another idea is it's a setting that the forum admin can tweak, and somehow we have this setting backwards from the rest of the world, maybe that's why so few people have reported problems with it.
Here's what I don't get... if it's a bug, it seems like a major one, and it would be easy to find people reporting it and explaining workarounds/patches, or at least an official page on vbulletin's forums that says "We're working on it". But on those forums I see nothing at all about fixing this issue. A few google results showed people griping about the problem, but they claim there's no fix. Also they're not on the same modern version of vbulletin and they never mentioned the logout trick. I wonder if somehow you're the first to notice that logging out makes it work properly?
Another idea is it's a setting that the forum admin can tweak, and somehow we have this setting backwards from the rest of the world, maybe that's why so few people have reported problems with it.
Definitely a strange problem. I guess we can conclude that it's unlikely we can do anything on our end to fix it.
If the admins have time after all the more important forum quirks have been ironed out, perhaps they might be interested in checking into it. If there really are some accounts (or machines) that the search is working fine on, that should at least give them something to go on.
Glad to hear that logging out is working for you though!
If the admins have time after all the more important forum quirks have been ironed out, perhaps they might be interested in checking into it. If there really are some accounts (or machines) that the search is working fine on, that should at least give them something to go on.
Glad to hear that logging out is working for you though!