Postby ggh » Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:21 pm UTC
Sorry - I may be repeating what is already known, but I feel like once I perform a search I break it (for me). When search came back, I could see my posts again, but then posts I made after that point did not show up.
On April 22, someone told me I could see more recent posts by limiting the results by a time period, and that worked so I was happy. I think I tested it with a limit of 7 days. Such a search now returns to me 9 matches between April 16 and April 22, which begins with the first post that doesn't show up for my unlimited search, and ends with the then-latest post of me asking if I should bring up my search woes on this thread - I believe that's what it gave me at the time too, leading me to believe that there was a useable workaround.
I can't remember when I tried again, but I'm guessing it was the next day, and that I then tried 1-day with success, because If I limit results to the previous 1 day now, I see the 5 results from April 22-23 that begin with me asking that question and ending the next day in Garden talking about balloon strings.
If I do 14 days now, I get 19 matches that end with the same post as the 7-day search does. Maybe I also did this search that same day, but I don't remember.
Just now I did a 6-month search and yay! I get 135 posts, ending with my most recent one, involving poronkusema on Time. I suspect that search is now set, and I'm reluctant to try any of the others, because I'm not sure if I've given them their one use yet, and, if not, why waste 'em? I'm pretty sure 3 months is still unspoilt (at least by me).
Sorry if this is all redundant. Also, sorry I don't have any awesome screengrabs like Felstaff.
ETA: I just checked 6-months again, and as I thought, this post is not there. I wondered if I could fool it by changing Descending to Ascending, and that didn't work at all: it still said that there were 135 results, but it's really confused about how pages work. There should be 4 pages of results, but clicking on page #s does not give the predicted results, and I haven't been able to see the most recent page at all. The first page it showed me was the oldest stuff, but the page 3 number seemed selected. Clicking page 2 shows me what I'd expect. Clicking on 1, shows me oldest, but makes the 3 light up. Clicking on 4 also shows the oldest stuff, but none of the numbers are selected. Clicking on 3, shows the page it should, but then the 1 lights up. This means you can't switch between pages 1 and 3, because when it's showing 1, it already thinks it's showing 3. None of this matters I guess - does anyone use Ascending? - but I mention it in the hopes that it's some awesome clue to what's going on, and you'll end up having a parade for me.
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ggh on Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:58 pm UTC, edited 2 times in total.