search button broken?

the last couple of days no matter what i search for it says it can find no matches when just a week ago i was getting results for the same searches. is this just happening to me?

Looks like it's not working. I'm getting no results for keywords, where there should be at least 1000 hits....

BoardTracker has always sucked, IMO. WTB new search engine.

Yeah been trying for 2 days, looking for a build I saw on here awhile back.

I'll go post that I'm looking for the build and get flamed for not useing the search button.

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Yep. I just did a random search and got nothing. That's never happened to me before.

Thanks for the heads up everyone. We'll start looking into this.

i searched for the word "nerf" and i coudnt find anything, seriously something wrong

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Yup, I'm having the same problem. After my actual serches didn't provide any results, I tried 'Gloom Shield' and 'Farm' etc, also with no results.

I thought it was just me. Was like this when i first joined the forums. Since this is vBulletin, they can easily use the vBulletin search function, or implement google search in it. Why use this ... whatever it's called instead?

For now, just go to www.google.com and add "site:www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/" (without the quotes) to a search.

Hi, Poki, thanks for that advice to use google to search this site. I just wanted to see if this issue still remains for everyone or just some people?

I've started playing Guildwars in the last week and have come to appreciate this site with its wealth of potential knowledge stored amongst its many users.
The only problem is finding that info, if the search funtion is not working, which it is not, for me and many others that i see posting saying something to that effect.

One thing i have noticied is that it appears to return keyword results for the last 24-72 hours but nothing further back than that, irregardless of how i set the thread cutoff date to in my options.
Im sure the SA has a reason to use this 3rd party forum search tool, but as mentioned above, vB search itself has worked fine for me on large boards. Then again i dont know if its related to the DB or server itself, as there appears to be issues with the load anyway.

Finally, i know this is my first post, but could i suggest that regulars here cut people a bit of slack atm if they do post something that could have been searched, simply because the search function does not appear to be working atm ;P

Cheers all, a great site and i look forward to contributing over time.

edit: lol it marks edits almost instantly..just a sp correction.
edit: ok im seeing results from up to a couple of days back

This is not working again..just thought i would bump up this thread.

In addition to the search function not working at all, or only showing a very small number of posts, the 'New Posts' funcion is also not working. It returns no posts for me, when there clearly are dozens of new posts since i last logged on.

I know this must be frustrating for the admins, we arent trying to pick on you, but merely find out if you agree that this is a problem and if you are aware of anything that you can do to change it?

Or if you revert back to the vBulletin search rather than board tracker, if that would improve things?

Or is it related to the server speed itself..? I cant remember right now, will check later on a site i have admin access too in vBulletin, but i wonder if there is some sort of timeout feature within the board itself, or another setting related to searches that would cause this.

Either which way, we would love to hear from an admin cheers.

Heck, it could be that only some of us are experiencing this and the majority of people can happily search away :P

I'm relatively new to these forums (but not to internet forums in general) and I never have been able to use the search successfully here. It gives no results on search terms, even when using advanced search on all posts in history.

I also notice that many of the forums are not listed in the advanced search.

Has the search delibarately been disabled or crippled because of the performance issues that a search gives for an already overloaded forum?

I see I'm not the only one who experiences problems...

First of all, I don't "have permission" to search for all my posts or threads started using the link in My Profile. Surely that should be allowed?

Second, since I _don't_ have this permission, I have started to add the random word simsalabim to all my posts, in the hope that I could then search on this word. Of course, searching on this word returns nothing

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The search function is still majorly broken. What is the reasoning for breaking search with a 3rd party broken software? vBulletin has perfectly great built-in searching ..

What's the eta for fixing this major bug?

You can no longer search for your own posts, it only returns a max of 2 .. ... and sometimes it returns none.

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Ah, low end hardware eh? Ah well. Thats great news. But why providing a non-functional search as a replacement instead of completely disabling search (it's basically that way now), and letting the users know?

LOL search was disabled longggg before you joined. Around or just before Factions release I think. Guru had a huge surge of new people then..the forum kinda started to die a slow death then.

Never said it wasnt :roll: The thing is, why do these forums claim to have a search function when it does not? Why doesn't the forum admin/owner actually remove the search links?

because she is working on a new server, and when we get it i believe search will be restored

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