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Support => Technical support => Topic started by: thereefers245 on February 13, 2013, 11:44 pm

Title: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: thereefers245 on February 13, 2013, 11:44 pm
No matter how long I wait in between searches it still gives me the "your last search was 5 seconds ago please wait", and I can't search anything at all. Can something be done about this?
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: mrxempire on February 13, 2013, 11:56 pm
I agree. Even when it does give results, sometimes it does not give the full list of results. I tried to look up a certain vendors review thread on the forums, found nothing, and then someone sent me the link to the review thread that did not show up on the search results. This sucks
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: bill417 on February 14, 2013, 12:01 am
Yep, bloody nuisance.
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: thinkforyourself on February 14, 2013, 12:53 am
Having the same issues the last hour. Would be cool if fixed, thanks :)
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: dex on February 15, 2013, 04:34 pm
Seems to happen to everyone. If you click on the top thing that says search you can do an advanced search. My only complaint with the search system is that if I search for a term and it finds it in a thread it won't look in that thread anymore for that term.
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: hee57 on February 15, 2013, 06:25 pm
I usually just search the same thing 2 or 3 times, but agreed, it would be nice to get this fixed.
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: meatwad on February 22, 2013, 03:08 pm
I have experienced the same issue.  It definitely makes it hard to find exactly what you are looking for sometimes.
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: weirdal on February 22, 2013, 04:32 pm
First, it only searches the part of the forum you're currently in.  So if you're in the drug safety forum and perform a search it'll only search the drug safety subforum.

Second, if it says that nonsense about your last search press ctrl+F5.  That'll reload the page without cache and usually fix the issue.  Sometimes you have to do it twice.  Kind of a pain in the ass, yes; however, it is a safety precaution to keep people from spamming the system and slowing it down kind of like a DDOS.
Title: Re: Forum Search is a Pain in the Ass
Post by: Namarrg0n on February 23, 2013, 10:56 am
First, it only searches the part of the forum you're currently in.  So if you're in the drug safety forum and perform a search it'll only search the drug safety subforum.

Second, if it says that nonsense about your last search press ctrl+F5.  That'll reload the page without cache and usually fix the issue.  Sometimes you have to do it twice.  Kind of a pain in the ass, yes; however, it is a safety precaution to keep people from spamming the system and slowing it down kind of like a DDOS.

#1 Was about to say exactly the same. Click left top Silk Road forums, the perform your search for all results

#2 Since you are on TOR and many people use the same exit-node the IP you have indeed has performed a search in the last 5 seconds. You'll have to try it again, maybe click on "get a new Identity" if your problem persists - I usually only have to try it 1-2 times. Removing this feature makes the forum vulnerable as already wrote by weirdal