How do you make search work?

[Hellbender]

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to get the board search function to work reliably. I am using the button on the top navigation bar; when I enter query parameters that I absolutely KNOW should find some threads, I get nothing back. Some days, I magically get results, but it's rare and very inconsistent. WTF am I doing wrong?

[Spy Shot 6/Cameron Otto]

It's automatically set to only check like, 7-14 days back in time. Make sure you set it to something actually sensible.

[Hellbender]

Been doing that. 1500 days back should cover the entire history of the game, but the search usually claims there's been no threads with Skyfire posting in the last 1500 days when I do that. Yeah. Sure.

[Jetfire (Ani)]

Hm, I don't know. The Search function has always been pretty bad, but it usually finds something for me.

On the other hand, if you're looking for posts by a particular character, it might be easier to just go through the account profile?

[Hellbender]

I think you've got something there. Listing back posts in a character's profile seems to work.

[Rodimus Prime]

Perhaps you can try Google's advanced search function with the domain set to board domain? Though narrowing things down to find a specific post might be a bit of a trick - you'd have to remember specific words used in the phrase and work the and, or, and exact quotes functions.

www.google.com/search?q=Skyfire+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftfdeadzone.proboards.com%2F&hl=en&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images