Hi Everyone,
I'm writing this really to the staff of the site. The issue I wanted to address is pretty much given in the title of the thread. I have been trying to bring up older threads and conversations from the past which I think would be of interest to newer people joining the forum. I also think it would be enlightening for them to be able to see threads and conversations from earlier models who took the time to talk to us in real time.
My question and issue is quite simply that there is no functioning search system left on the forum at all. If you go to the "Advanced Search" tab and type in a word or even the name of the forum poster who you know started the thread, it gives you absolutely nothing. It used to be that you could type in a word like "Colin" and it would show you every thread ever posted which included that word going back 6 years or more. The search function has now been completely disabled. The search functions on this newer, later software were always less user friendly than the older previous one. But even so, they worked somewhat. Now they don't work at all.
Even if you do find an older thread of a forum member who hasn't posted within the last year or so, if you look up Latest Post or Latest Started Threads by that person on their profile page...you get nothing. Zip. If the person has posted within the last year or so, you can still see some information on their latest posts and the latest threads started by them, going back maybe a year or two. But again, only if they have posted fairly recently.
I don't know if this happened when the Models Only section of the forum was removed from what used to be 3 sections of the forum offerings, or if it happened before or after. I never really got the point of the Models Only section anyway, where forum members weren't allowed to start threads there, but could still post to the threads. I guess maybe there was some good business or security reason and logic behind that decision at the time. Now all the models who ever posted on the forum (or started threads themselves), show no information if you go to their profile pages and look up their Latest Posts or Latest Started Threads. (Just like everyone else.)
If there was some obvious reason for doing this or some convoluted three dimensional chess logic to this, that actually does make sense in the end, I'd be happy to live with that. But I just don't see an obvious reason. And I'm not an unintelligent, slow or a not-so-worldly person. lol I just find it very frustrating to only be able to find old threads or posts by scrolling through hundreds or thousands of threads trying to find a needle in haystack. While not impossible, it is EXTREMELY frustrating and time consuming.
I don't expect the company to free up 5 hours or more of valuable and expensive company labor to tackle and fix this issue. I totally realize that this is not an urgent task or issue for a company which will always have plenty of important and time-sensitive matters on its plate. haha But I'm hoping that this could be accomplished in much less time than that. Whether it was intentional or not, somebody did something to completely dis-able the search features. Is there anything relatively painless and inexpensive that can be done to re-enable them?
Please and Thank You! LOL
I'm writing this really to the staff of the site. The issue I wanted to address is pretty much given in the title of the thread. I have been trying to bring up older threads and conversations from the past which I think would be of interest to newer people joining the forum. I also think it would be enlightening for them to be able to see threads and conversations from earlier models who took the time to talk to us in real time.
My question and issue is quite simply that there is no functioning search system left on the forum at all. If you go to the "Advanced Search" tab and type in a word or even the name of the forum poster who you know started the thread, it gives you absolutely nothing. It used to be that you could type in a word like "Colin" and it would show you every thread ever posted which included that word going back 6 years or more. The search function has now been completely disabled. The search functions on this newer, later software were always less user friendly than the older previous one. But even so, they worked somewhat. Now they don't work at all.
Even if you do find an older thread of a forum member who hasn't posted within the last year or so, if you look up Latest Post or Latest Started Threads by that person on their profile page...you get nothing. Zip. If the person has posted within the last year or so, you can still see some information on their latest posts and the latest threads started by them, going back maybe a year or two. But again, only if they have posted fairly recently.
I don't know if this happened when the Models Only section of the forum was removed from what used to be 3 sections of the forum offerings, or if it happened before or after. I never really got the point of the Models Only section anyway, where forum members weren't allowed to start threads there, but could still post to the threads. I guess maybe there was some good business or security reason and logic behind that decision at the time. Now all the models who ever posted on the forum (or started threads themselves), show no information if you go to their profile pages and look up their Latest Posts or Latest Started Threads. (Just like everyone else.)
If there was some obvious reason for doing this or some convoluted three dimensional chess logic to this, that actually does make sense in the end, I'd be happy to live with that. But I just don't see an obvious reason. And I'm not an unintelligent, slow or a not-so-worldly person. lol I just find it very frustrating to only be able to find old threads or posts by scrolling through hundreds or thousands of threads trying to find a needle in haystack. While not impossible, it is EXTREMELY frustrating and time consuming.
I don't expect the company to free up 5 hours or more of valuable and expensive company labor to tackle and fix this issue. I totally realize that this is not an urgent task or issue for a company which will always have plenty of important and time-sensitive matters on its plate. haha But I'm hoping that this could be accomplished in much less time than that. Whether it was intentional or not, somebody did something to completely dis-able the search features. Is there anything relatively painless and inexpensive that can be done to re-enable them?
Please and Thank You! LOL
