COULD SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO SEARCH FOR A FUCKIN' THREAD?!

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As usual, I can't find shit through google or with hours of endless thread-searching! Someone clue me in so that I don't post yet another thread to which someone will reply, "yeah, like the first thread on this subject I'd have to agree with so-and-so..."

I'm looking for the oroner C or D thread...

― Man looking for a thread!, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

That should read "Coroner: C or D?" thread.

― Scaredy, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I can;t get the search function to work neither

― ss, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit, I've never noticed it down there before. When I read "search function" I actually looked around for one whereas before I had believed none existed.

Imagine all the hours I've wasted manually hunting down threads!

― Scaredy Stupid, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I generally find it never works first time but if you exit and re-enter - bingo!

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It becomes available once you enter the forums.

― Francis Watlington, Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I think ILX has just been a bit buggered for the last half hour, so it might be that. I usually find it a very good search function.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It can be very slow, esp. if searching for common words or multiple words. It seems to take longer if you specify that the word(s) must appear in the title of the thread, which is ALL WRONG.

But it ranks the results quite well.

If you are registered with ILX then you can go to settings and add a simple search box at the top of each screen. It defaults to Google but you change that to ILM or ILE.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If you search on the 'part of a thread title' one, it's fastest, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

...didn't we used to have not only "Unanswered Questions" but also "New Questions" at the top?
...or did I only dream that?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

'New Questions' now = 'I Love Music'

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

and = pointless, as they appear on the New Answers list anyway, even if unanswered.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but it's nice to see just what's being asked rather than it being swamped in what's being discussed.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never been able to pull up just thread titles containing the search term(s); it pulls up every message in every thread that has them. Don't know what I'm doing wrong.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Just put your search term in the 'thread title' box. It always gives you one of the posts in the thread as well in the list of results, but all the results will have your search term in the title of the thread.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

cool, thanks. (so in the main keyword search up top, is there no difference between 'find threads' and 'find messages'?)

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Err yes, there is. It's the least intuitive part of the search screen.

I think this is right:

"Threads" searches across the whole thread - titles/questions and posts and will return a list of the threads that contain your search terms somewhere

"Messages" searches the individual posts and will thus often return a set of results containing lots of individual messages within a common thread. This is useful when rather than doing a keyword search, you want a list of a particular person's posts and are thus filling in the 'email address' 'login' or 'name' fields.

"Questions", if used in conjunction with a keyword search, will do the same as the simple 'thread title' search above. But again, if you want all the threads started by a particular person, it can fulfill a unique function.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah ha! Got it, then. Thanks again.

― Sam J. (samjeff), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"least intuitive part of the search screen"

The least intuitive part for me would have to be these three:
Name [_________] (exact beginning)
Email [_________] (exact beginning)
Login Name [_________] (exact beginning)

Email makes sense. But is "Paul in Santa Cruz" my Name or my Login Name? And what's the third category for?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 19 June 2003 05:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It's both of them, Paul - but not everyone has the same name and login name. Click 'show all details' and look at the post above yours for an illustration of that.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 June 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, now it's all clear. Thanks Martin! (I'd never used the "Show All Details" button -- I guess I assumed that if I ticked enough boxes on my Settings page, I'd get "all details" that way...)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 21 June 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(D'oh! I just looked at my settings, and the one box that isn't ticked is Username.)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 21 June 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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