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It just simply brings up the 'Board Message'

 

 

Sorry, an error occurred. If you are unsure on how to use a feature, or don't know why you got this error message, try looking through the help files for more information.

 

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Search is currently unavailable. Please try your query on Google instead.

Is it broken? So I'm supposed to just use the Google search? But the Google can't search all the post done by someone in a specific topic and also the 'Find All Posts' under my profile doesn't work.

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Zaibatsu is superior to the normal members as I see. confused.gif

I hope the 'Find all posts by this member' option will be up again soon.

 

Also, the 'Today's active topics' option on the Board Index is down as well. sad.gif

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Also, the 'Today's active topics' option on the Board Index is down as well. sad.gif

Works fine for me as well.

 

Everything either works for us since both uni and I are staff, or because we're in different member groups then you guys. Probably the former.

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the search engine from forum tools has been replaced with a google custom search,

and the Find all posts by this member, works fine.

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As I said in this topic.

 

Only Members have the View Posts disabled.

 

And the Search engine works, its just hidden.

(But probably works for Non-Member groups anyway)

Although it is hidden it still does not work for members. At least its that way for me..

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I thought it was pretty clear that disabling the search feature entirely for the general populace drops the server-load a sh*tload, since searches are really taxing on the server and GTAF's been having some serious server problems lately (502, 404, etc).

 

Us outside of the member group probably still have access to the 'Find All Posts By This Member' feature because we have practical recruitment and other such uses for it; compared to the average member. Along with being much fewer in number.

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OK I'm getting REALLY tired of not being able to use the "recent posts" button. They better hurry up and fix this crap it's been a fu*king month already! mad.gif

You should calm the f*ck down.

No need to be a d*ck. Besides it's easy for you to say cause you're not in "members"

 

I forgot I even posted here cause the find posts buttons "broke".

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just bookmark the topics you wish to track, until they fix it.
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OK I'm getting REALLY tired of not being able to use the "recent posts" button. They better hurry up and fix this crap it's been a fu*king month already! mad.gif

You should calm the f*ck down.

No need to be a d*ck. Besides it's easy for you to say cause you're not in "members"

 

I forgot I even posted here cause the find posts buttons "broke".

You started being a dick at the Admins.

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OK I'm getting REALLY tired of not being able to use the "recent posts" button. They better hurry up and fix this crap it's been a fu*king month already! mad.gif

You should calm the f*ck down.

No need to be a d*ck. Besides it's easy for you to say cause you're not in "members"

 

I forgot I even posted here cause the find posts buttons "broke".

You started being a dick at the Admins.

That wasn't suppose to be aimed at the Admins. But now that you mention it... sorry. But still I hope they fix it soon.

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Every time I come here I always go to my profile and click on "View posts by this member" so I can see which things I posted were responded to.. I also always used the today's active topics thing.... i mean is this never coming back? I've been registered here for like 2 years coming next month and I'm not allowed to search my own posts?? That is a severe inconvenience...

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A replacement for the forum search engine is being worked on and will be ready when it's ready. In the meantime, a few tips for getting the most out of Google:

 

 

Seaching a specific forum

 

Add the exact phrase from the breadcrumb navigation (i.e. where it says >> GTAForums.com » The Network » GTA Network Support) to your search. You'll also need to replace the » with wildcards * otherwise Google won't find anything.

 

For example, you could search for steak in the GTA V forum using something like steak "GTAForums.com * GTA Series * GTA V" (see results).

 

Since that exact phrase comes up a lot, you'll probably need to click the repeat the search with the omitted results included link at the end of the initial search results to see all the matches.

 

 

Seaching a specific topic

 

This isn't all that useful since Google treats the whole page as a single document so you won't get individual posts back. You can still try by adding inurl to your query with the topic ID (the number after ?showtopic= in the URL). So to search this topic, you'd use inurl:459396. Obviously this is much more useful if it's a huge topic with lots of pages.

 

Alternatively, just hit the Print this topic link when browsing a topic and it'll give you a single page with every post on it. You can then use your browser's search function to scroll to the posts you want.

 

 

Seach within a particular time

 

You might be better off using the main Google site and adding site:www.gtaforums.com to the query. You can then use Google's standard date cutoff options.

 

 

Seach within titles

 

If you know the topic title, you'll narrow down the results a lot if you search titles only using the intitle modifier. For example, intitle:"find all posts" should give this topic and similarly titled ones.

 

 

Or you can even try a combination of the above for a really specific search. If you just want to track your own posts, you'll be better off using the topic subscriptions feature. Go to My Controls -> Options -> Email Settings to see the subscription options. Check the Enable 'Email Notification' by default? option to automatically subscribe to topics you post in. (While you're here, you might want to make sure Send email when someone replies to a subscribed topic? is unchecked if you don't want your inbox cluttered up.) Then whenever you want to check your subscriptions, go to My Controls -> Subscriptions -> View Topics and you'll see all your subscribed topics.

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/me waits for December 16th 2010.

Oh wait I spoiled the date, Tank must delay it.

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