So as you can see from this screen shot, I was doing a search for Your Good Buy of the Day Thread. And as you can see, I got nothing even closely related. What good is a search function if this is what you get for results!
Click on advanced search and check the box to search ââmatching in title onlyâ and the thread will probably come up.
I also do not like the changes in the Search function. It now takes three steps more than before the find something.
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Tip for future - directly in the search box:
âYour Good Buyâ in:title
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I did! I didnât get the threadâŠwhich had exactly the name I was searching for.
That is what I did!
My point isâŠI typed in the name of the thread and got NOTHING related to that threadâŠthat shouldnât be happening.
I tried the advanced functionâŠand it yielded the same results.
Glad it workedâŠputting the in:title directly in the search bar is a more elegant (and seemingly more accurate) way to find threads!
I think you misunderstood me. I used the advance function and still didnât get the Good Buy of the Day Thread in my search.
I ended up going to the Parents Cafe and scrolling down.
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The search function never works well for me either. I also end up going to the subform and scrolling. The other day I was looking for the âsay it hereâ thread and it wouldnât come up on the search.
In general though, the site is getting more and more glitchy for me. The formatting is off more than 50% of the time and the notifications for unread posts is off. It will tell me I have unread threads but then when I click, it says there are none.
I understand now. For what itâs worth when i put this in the search bar:
your good buy of the day in:title
The thread is the first one that comes up. If I just put in âyour good buyâ in:title, it doesnât come up. 
Clearly the search function needs some work if you need to know the full title of the thread to get good results!
Thatâs what I putâŠ.see my screen shot above. And itâs THE topic. It should have come upâŠdonât you think??
It didnât.
I just tried againâŠand which thread comes upâŠthis oneđ€Šđ»ââïž
You need to literally write in:title after the thread name
How would people know to do that?
If I type in âsay it hereâ the first hit is for the HS edition that hasnât been active since May and nowhere does the active one for parents come up.
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You mean I need to write the words âin titleâ in my search words. WellâŠ.thatâs ridiculous!
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It should be more straightforward. You can see the words âin:titleâ get added to the search line when you click on the advanced function and choose the box 'matching in title only". So in the future instead of going to the advanced function and click the box, you can just write in:title to start with (assuming what you are searching for is the title of a thread). This usually works for me, but again it could be better.
Not that I love the search function, but clicking âmatching in title onlyâ in advanced worked for me.
I tried that tooâŠand I still didnât get to the thread I was looking forâŠexcept I didnât write âin titleâ which is ridiculous since I was clearly looking for things with that title.
And I know Iâm not the only one!
This search function needs some tweaking, in my opinion.
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You donât have to write âin title.â Checking the match in title box is what populates the âin title.â But no idea why it would not work for you.
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I donât know why it doesnât work either⊠but reallyâŠit shouldnât be this hard. When you type in the exact name of a threadâŠdonât you think it should come up in your search??
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