The issue of searching on the forum

[yngvarr]

Dear moderators, could you somehow solve the search problem, since now it gives out super-long (hundreds of lines) posts (like this by Tracy) for almost any query? This greatly complicates the search. Maybe spoilers? In general, spoilers would be very useful without that. In Tracy's case, you could ask her to edit the post - just leave one link to a text file uploaded to Gdrive or Mega.

Thank you for your attention.

[YanOma]

There are a few search terms that I just can't do as it seems to completely time zonegfx out.

[DeeBag]

I totally agree with you @yngvarr. I've brought this up before myself for similar posts. I believe just using a spoiler tag would solve the problem. Can that option be added to the forums?

@YanOma I've run into that issue as well.

[Jinx]

10000% agree with you @yngvarr!
I was going to make a thread exactly about this problem, and now I see you did it.

@hunter, @monkseye, @anjabear, Could you please solve this annoying problem or at least edit those long long posts on that thread?
Thanks.

[Dick]

This is still a big problem.

[Paul (Fuzzy3000)]

Agree with all above - getting very old, very fast.

Why can it not be a condition that anyone that wants to post such an intense list is required to just post a link to a pdf [or WHY]?

No matter what you are searching for it is likely that it will recognise something from your search within these enormous lists [not the best relational search engine at the best of times :)].

Please implement something to remove these scrolling nightmares, and provide a link to download them...

[Amber]

Yes, this is annoying, but not as much as the hit-or-miss nature of explicit searches.
Use one word, or whole name, or SKU... any one of those may or may not return the result while the other gives a different result... all while the explicit search tern in fact DOES exist in the expected result.
Example (this happens way too often):
search SKU "12345" ... nothing.
search "Plain Jane Bundle" ... nothing.
search "jane" ... somewhere in the 20 results, you find a post "Plain Jane Bundle" which has as an SKU tag "12345".
Makes me wanna tear my skin off every time.

You have to do 10 different kinds of search just to be certain a product may or may not be in the blog... and must research the product beforehand to make sure you search for a bundle that could contain it. Otherwise, you risk double-posting and wasting everyone's time.

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