Will the Search function be fixed soon? - Guild Wars Forums

viper008 · Nov 30, 2006, 10:42 AM

Every time I try to use the search feature it NEVER performs the searches, the page just refreshes and that’s it. I have to use Google instead in order to find what I need on this forum and it’s very much a pain sometimes.

Thanks
Viper008

Lasareth · Nov 30, 2006, 07:38 PM

With the new guru subscription program and the help of those who support us, everyone will definitely see improvements in site functions. Search should be one of these features.

viper008 · Nov 30, 2006, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Lasareth

With the new guru subscription program and the help of those who support us, everyone will definitely see improvements in site functions. Search should be one of these features.

Search should be one of these features.

I hope that is some sort of a sick joke,

The seacrh should be for everyone so their won't be "use the search function" all the time. Just begging for more threads and useless spam for mods/admins to clean up becuase of people not using the search. I see this being counter productive for everyone here on the forum. Since serch funtion is a basic function on any forum and now have to pay to use it well no thanks and you won't get any money from me.

Viper008

Edit I Just found a post with an admin telling someone to use the seacrh but it doesn't work.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...18&postcount=7

Lasareth · Nov 30, 2006, 11:57 PM

I think you misunderstand. You don't pay for a new search. The search we have is a feature all users use regardless of their support status. The support, however is helping us out. The first priority is keeping the servers working so that people can actually access the site. And the money put into running this site isn't going into anyone's pockets, it's going into the improvement of the site.

So with the support of the users who've decided to contribute, we can get more done in less time. Which means that once the servers are ok we can move onto noncritical but important site functions such as search.

We don't need your money, no.

Donating isn't something we require. The benefits of doing so do not give anyone an advantage over anyone else in viewing the forums. However, other users see that helping the site will help stuff like search get working quicker. So instead of complaining, they help us out.

We know search sucks. And we're doing our best to fix it. Don't jump the gun, though, under the assumption that we can fix everything now at your whim. Because we can't. The best I can say is that our efforts are going to the site and that we're working towards making things better for users. What else could we do? I don't exactly help out here so that users can have a bad experience. And I don't make "Sick jokes."

And I just clicked the link, it does work. Are you giving it more than 10 seconds to load the results below the search input?

viper008 · Dec 01, 2006, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Lasareth

I think you misunderstand. You don't pay for a new search. The search we have is a feature all users use regardless of their support status. The support, however is helping us out. The first priority is keeping the servers working so that people can actually access the site. And the money put into running this site isn't going into anyone's pockets, it's going into the improvement of the site.

So with the support of the users who've decided to contribute, we can get more done in less time. Which means that once the servers are ok we can move onto noncritical but important site functions such as search.

We don't need your money, no.

Donating isn't something we require. The benefits of doing so do not give anyone an advantage over anyone else in viewing the forums. However, other users see that helping the site will help stuff like search get working quicker. So instead of complaining, they help us out.

We know search sucks. And we're doing our best to fix it. Don't jump the gun, though, under the assumption that we can fix everything now at your whim. Because we can't. The best I can say is that our efforts are going to the site and that we're working towards making things better for users. What else could we do? I don't exactly help out here so that users can have a bad experience. And I don't make "Sick jokes."

And I just clicked the link, it does work. Are you giving it more than 10 seconds to load the results below the search input?

I've been putting off making this thread for some time now so it's not like I've never game you all time to work on things with the forum. I do know you all have jobs, life, family ect away from the forum so I do unsterstand that tings can't be fixed when people here on the forum when people want it done.

I do wait for 10 seconds and more but nothing turns up just a basicly a page refresh happens. It only happens on this forum and even if I disable my firewall on my pc and my router same thing every time. (I never has this problem several months ago)

*kzap* · Dec 01, 2006, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by viper008

I've been putting off making this thread for some time now so it's not like I've never game you all time to work on things with the forum. I do know you all have jobs, life, family ect away from the forum so I do unsterstand that tings can't be fixed when people here on the forum when people want it done.

I do wait for 10 seconds and more but nothing turns up just a basicly a page refresh happens. It only happens on this forum and even if I disable my firewall on my pc and my router same thing every time. (I never has this problem several months ago)

Hi Viper, search should be working, please list the URL of the search page, what browser you are using, what term you are searching for and if you can include a screenshot of the result page so we can debug and figure out whats going on.

viper008 · Dec 01, 2006, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by kzap

Hi Viper, search should be working, please list the URL of the search page, what browser you are using, what term you are searching for and if you can include a screenshot of the result page so we can debug and figure out whats going on.

Ok for this I just used key words: dye charts

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...0&cat=1&frm=-1

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/searchbt.php

I'm using IE6 as my browser with SP2, OS Media Center 2005

*Savio* · Dec 02, 2006, 03:40 AM

I seem to be able to search fine with both IE6 and Firefox.

My search urls:

Code:

Quick search at top of page:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/searchbt.php?search=dye+charts
Advanced search:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/searchbt.php?search=dye+charts&order=1&user=&scope=4&cat=1&frm=-1

Your search url:

Code:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/searchbt.php?search=dye+charts&order=1&user=&scope=0&cat=1&frm=-1

Your search doesn't seem to work for me either, giving no results. I'm curious as to what scope=0 does.

*kzap* · Dec 02, 2006, 04:02 AM

yes what link do you get the scope=0 from, or what page did you search from

viper008 · Dec 02, 2006, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by kzap

yes what link do you get the scope=0 from, or what page did you search from

The advanced search
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/searchbt.php

Carth` · Dec 07, 2006, 01:35 AM

What happened to searching for a user's posts? It used to link to BoardTracker website that would find all posts by a user, now it links to a page saying you don't have permission.

Carth` · Dec 10, 2006, 11:38 AM

? can someone clarify has it been disabled or is it available only to people who pay?

Malice Black · Dec 10, 2006, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Carth`

? can someone clarify has it been disabled or is it available only to people who pay?

We Elite/Core guru members do not get any special "extra's" we do not get a faster load time we do not get a better search feature what we do get is listed on the subscription page.

Mr D J · Dec 10, 2006, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Carth`

What happened to searching for a user's posts? It used to link to BoardTracker website that would find all posts by a user, now it links to a page saying you don't have permission.

It works fine for me, but it could be because moderators need to use this function to dig up some dirt on someone >_< (like multiple posters).

Feminist Terrorist · Dec 10, 2006, 10:55 PM

Regular members get the regular, barely functioning search. Most of the time I just want to look up my own posts. I've had to resort to subscribing to nearly everything I post in. :/

Omega X · Dec 12, 2006, 10:17 AM

They could have just let Google index and use them as search. The board tracker thing is useless at finding recent posts.

Katari · Dec 12, 2006, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Carth`

What happened to searching for a user's posts? It used to link to BoardTracker website that would find all posts by a user, now it links to a page saying you don't have permission.

If you click a users name from within a thread, a dropdown list appears, and the option to search for other posts by that users appears. However, what it actually does is seach for threads by that user, not posts, which isn't quite as usefull as many people would like I'd bet.

Feminist Terrorist · Dec 12, 2006, 02:27 PM

Both options return a message telling me I don't have permission to access that page.
Grrr.

*Savio* · Jan 11, 2007, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by kzap

yes what link do you get the scope=0 from, or what page did you search from

It seems to be reverting to scope=0 for me on a new computer, not sure what's up with that. I'm guessing scope refers to how far back the search will look, and 0 probably only comes up with very recent threads or none at all.

ducktape · Jan 13, 2007, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Feminist Terrorist

Both options return a message telling me I don't have permission to access that page.
Grrr.

I get this too right now. When I click anything about searching for posts or threads by someone, no matter who I search for, I get this:

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ducktape, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:
Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Glad it's not just me, the idea of lesser priveleges or problems on my account was confusing. Whatever happened to good old "searching has been disabled"?

By the way, here's the address that was at the top of the page when it gave me the "you do not have permission" message.
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...nduser&u=45055