Quote from: Lucius on Today at 04:30:43 PM

No offense, but you are already an old member of the forum and you should know how to find a topic, and especially you should know that such a topic is probably in the Reputation board.

If he does not know, he can learn and now is the time for it.

[Guide] Searching effectively
theymos explained about forum search with some guides, days ago.

Quote from: theymos on September 20, 2024, 01:15:00 AM

I use the forum search a lot, but you really need to know how it works and how to deal with its quirks. Some tips:

If you search for candy corn, it will return posts with both "candy" and "corn" in their bodies or subjects. The two words are keywords that can be separated, so it would match the phrase "I like candy, but I don't like corn". If you instead search for "candy corn", with the quotes, then the two words have to appear right next to each other as a single phrase.
With the default settings, it will only return the last post in a topic that matches, even if more posts in that topic match. To change this, enable the option "Show results as messages".
If more than about 5 pages of topics would be returned, then only an arbitrary subset of all results will be returned. To avoid this, setting a message-age restriction is often a good approach.
If you use the search box in the upper right while in a topic or board, then it only searches that topic or board (& sub-boards).
If one of the words in your search is incredibly common on the forum, like "the", then search will return bad, weird results, or may time-out after hanging for a long time. This applies even if the common word is in a quoted phrase, like "the president". Some decent-looking results may be returned, but posts which should be returned will not be.