Can't search forums [Archive] - Wizards Community

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gandalf970

06-16-06, 07:04 PM
How come you can't search these forums? Am I missing the search forum button???????????? :confused: :confused: :confused:
Xeraph

06-16-06, 07:09 PM
No, WotC just suck at making good forums.

Make an advanced google search instead. Use "" http://boards1.wizards.com "" as the site to refer to.

Good gaming.
Esponer

06-16-06, 07:14 PM
I don't get it. If I saw some webforums without a search function, I'd think, "Oh, these are webforums without a search function". Why do so many people instead think, "What's wrong with the world? Am I missing it? It must be here. It must be!"?

There is no search function. Yet. For technical reasons.
Xeraph

06-16-06, 07:30 PM
But there used to be.

Like you said, technical reasons got in the way.

Just don't understand why they haven't fixed it. A search function couldn't be that hard to make. But what do I know, I havent scripted vBulletin boards... yet.
Thorak

06-16-06, 08:38 PM
There is no search function because the software these forums run on has a hissy fit searching a database of posts as large as this one is. Which causes the servers to crash. Which is bad.

This is also why they're switching software. You may have noticed the announcement at the top of most of the boards. There's a glitch in the process at the moment, but they're working on it, precisely because they want to get the search function working again.
gandalf970

06-17-06, 05:04 AM
Thanks then I will wait for the search function to work properly.