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[warwagon]

Just recently I've been trying to find a thread I created a while ago. I tried the Neowin search as well as searching via Google (Which usually works pretty well). This is the second thread I've been unable to find in the last 2 weeks.

What I would like is a search box under your profile which only searches the title of your threads.

Thanks.

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if anyone wants to go on a thread hunt you can attempt to hunt down the following thread for me.

I made a thread about 6 months regarding dodgy tech support that when you contact most major companies like Linksys, Netgear and so on all they do is want to charge you $200 to clean up your computer.

[Luc2k]

Neowin's forum search is damn terrible.

[Guth]

http://www.neowin.ne.../4927-warwagon/ then click topics? no?

edit: sorry that only shows a few latest ones

edit2: found it
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&search_app=forums&mid=4927&sid=2d98e421b0494ab7144f54710cb9fca4&search_app_filters[forums][searchInKey]=&userMode=title

[+Blank]

For some reason IPS decided to make it hard as hell to search for all posts/topics by a certain person. Used to be easy in the pre 2.3x days. There used to be a link on the profiles that'd say "find all posts by user", and it was great.

I guess they thought it was too simple.

Now its limited by date and all other sorts of crap.

[TheLegendOfMart]

The functionality is already there.

Click your or someone elses profile, at the top right above your 'likes' click 'find content', then on the right click 'only topics'

[+Azusa]

another thing i'd like to see is being able to find our first post but that could be impossible. Found it!!!!

[+Blank]

Azusa, on 23 January 2013 - 12:07, said:

another thing i'd like to see is being able to find our first post but that could be impossible. Found it!!!!

is this it? http://www.neowin.ne...#entry585062117
earliest one from you i found lol

[+articuno1au]

Yeah, I got bitten by this issue also.

I was looking for a topic I made about a RAID issue. I couldn't find it on the forums because the cutoff was too early, and RAID isn't exactly an uncommon keyword on the forum

Search in IPB kinda sucks now days >.>

Also, I suspect Neowin has handicapped the search slightly to stop it from eating into general forum performance. Running searches on the DB does chew up a fair amount of process time.

[TheLegendOfMart]

It's not the most elegant way, but if you remember what the topic was about just do what I said a few posts up, use the search function in your browser, press f3, click next page, press f3, click next page, etc.. until you find your result.

[+Azusa]

muggerfugger, on 23 January 2013 - 12:31, said:

is this it? http://www.neowin.ne...#entry585062117
earliest one from you i found lol

Nope it's http://www.neowin.ne...54342-inverted/ this if i remember correctly it was something with the save/open file window at the time was lacking the sorting buttons and right click as i was on XP SP2 at the time.

[compl3x]

Guth, on 23 January 2013 - 12:04, said:

http://www.neowin.ne.../4927-warwagon/ then click topics? no?

edit: sorry that only shows a few latest ones

edit2: found it
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&search_app=forums&mid=4927&sid=2d98e421b0494ab7144f54710cb9fca4&search_app_filters[forums][searchInKey]=&userMode=title

The "find content" thing only goes back to the 25th of Jan 2012

[roguekiller23231]

dont you just do an advanced search

http://www.neowin.ne...arch_in=members

and select forums and put in the members name?