So the post history of about 4 users I clicked on as a test when clicking the 'view forum posts' button all stop at 4 2012. Is this intentional and is all posting before that date lost now?
Hmm guess the ones I picked all randomly had 100 posts since 4 2012. Didn't put 2+2 together for the 100 post cap. So I guess I'm wondering why the 100 post cap? Seems arbitrary and harder to find info if you know who made a post but don't remember what to search for or the search itself would bring up too many unrelated results.
Hmm...good question. Seems all searches are limited to 100 results. Not sure if it was always that way or not. That could be done to limit server load but it takes less than a second to return those 100 results. And you can't specify an older date range than "a year ago and older" which is then limited to 100 results. So the only way to see anything more is to know what to search for. And the search puts multiple words together with an OR so adding more keywords will broaden the search, not limit it.
I've had my "posts per page" set to 40 for... over a decade. I've been digging through old posts using search and advanced search, in its various incarnations, through various versions of this board, for over a decade. In this instance, I'm not asking you for advice, I'm describing to you the behavior as it exists.
It sure would be neat if you could alter the search options, to add a date range, like "find threads between 2001 and 2004", but I don't expect that change any time soon.
To be honest, the option remained the same since the change over and I wouldn't look into changing it as it can kill the DB running a query that long. I will see if I can tweak around the search options to have more refine options like years of the thread
I say enough stupid things now to be alright with my old posts being nonsearchable
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