Search - the new forum

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smala
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Search - the new forum

Post by smala »

Search on this new forum keeps failing. Tried several times with different song titles. Quite frustrating. :swear: An unhappy camper, yours truly.

srkris
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Post by srkris »

Thanks for the alert, will look into it right away.

Mahathma
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Re: Search - the new forum

Post by Mahathma »

Same experienced by me.

smala
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Re: Search - the new forum

Post by smala »

A lot of the times search either brings up nothing or says this :

You must specify at least one word to search for. Each word must consist of at least 3 characters and must not contain more than 14 characters excluding wildcards.

For example, I tried to find "oruti maganay pirandu" with different spellings, then dropping words, then tried "pasuram" "Andal" and was comepletely unsuccessful each time.

I can't find any old stuff. PLEASE make the search feature more user friendly - the old forum was SO much better!

srkris
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Re: Search - the new forum

Post by srkris »

Shyama priya,

The spelling matters. If you search for "oruthi maganai" rather than "oruti maganay", you will have used a search term closer to how most people write, and therefore get results.

Pasuram gives me 170 results and Andal gives about 231.

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