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Search function doesn't work

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Hi guys, I'm going to search for tables of some specific games, but the search function doesn't work properly. No matter what I search, the forum just redirect me to a search.php, shows me a google search bar under the line SEARCH USING GOOGLE FOR BEST RESULTS (MIGHT TAKE A FEW SECONDS TO LOAD), and gives me no result. I wonder if anyone have the same problem, and is there any way to solve this.

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I'll give you a brilliant idea. How about you use that cool looking Google search bar to search for the tables?
I imagine that using a search bar as a search bar, is a genius idea way too complicated to come up with.

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Well, okay, problem solved. I thought this forum has a broken built-in search engine and that search bar is a simple link to google. Glad to hear I'm wrong.

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Ah..I see that searching the forum for a table is really just "please use google instead".

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Volcannon wrote:
Sun Jul 03, 2022 2:17 pm
Ah..I see that searching the forum for a table is really just "please use google instead".
If you click the search icon, you'll be sent to a search bar that looks for posts on this website only, using Google. Which is the same as using any search bar to search for anything.

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I honestly wish I could just search the forum instead of using an engine that I absolutely abhor with every fibre of my every existance.

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Can't Search, please help

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hi all, the title says it all, I cannot search. I enter my game in the search box and it takes me to the google page as usual, but nowhere can I type on the new page. Today every click that brings me to the search page is just a dead end. What am I doing wrong?

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stoondevton wrote:
Tue Jan 17, 2023 9:21 pm
hi all, the title says it all, I cannot search. I enter my game in the search box and it takes me to the google page as usual, but nowhere can I type on the new page. Today every click that brings me to the search page is just a dead end. What am I doing wrong?
Works fine for me. Can you screenshot?

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Casanova, you're magic, now I go to the search page and it works fine. I'm going to try and post a pic that shows the line that was missing.

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I don't think that worked, so here's copy/paste of the search page.
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SEARCH USING GOOGLE FOR BEST RESULTS (MIGHT TAKE A FEW SECONDS TO LOAD)

this is the line where you type to search and it was missing for me

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Is it working or is Crome blocking it? :( :(

Everything I try has failed even trying something I KNOW is on the list (as I copied it from there) and that failed too! :o

Please help or it would be incurable long and tedious to find anything! :cry:

Sorry about the spelling I am dyslexic and rely on spell checkers there may also be some homophones.

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bonio1966 wrote:
Tue May 09, 2023 1:53 pm
Is it working or is Crome blocking it? :( :(

Everything I try has failed even trying something I KNOW is on the list (as I copied it from there) and that failed too! :o

Please help or it would be incurable long and tedious to find anything! :cry:

Sorry about the spelling I am dyslexic and rely on spell checkers there may also be some homophones.
Screenshot?

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Is searching within a thread possible, though? When I try to do that I just get redirected to the generic google search which looks through the entire forums, not just that thread.

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OtakuGamer wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 12:20 pm
Is searching within a thread possible, though? When I try to do that I just get redirected to the generic google search which looks through the entire forums, not just that thread.
This right here.

The generic google search bar is very workable to find a topic or thread. Searching within that thread though seems impossible right now, which is especially annoying when it comes to topics with hundreds of pages.

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why is this search function handicapped? i know other woltlab boards, where the search function works as it should. why not here? topic search window is useless, so why even put it in then???
normal search leads to google, where i have to put in twice what i want to search, which is awkward too...
nonetheless, this board is awesome, but when it comes to fast using, it lose alot...

maybe someone can explain^^

thanks, cheers <3

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Cheech wrote:
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:19 am
why is this search function handicapped? i know other woltlab boards, where the search function works as it should. why not here? topic search window is useless, so why even put it in then???
normal search leads to google, where i have to put in twice what i want to search, which is awkward too...
nonetheless, this board is awesome, but when it comes to fast using, it lose alot...

maybe someone can explain^^

thanks, cheers <3
I have explained this several times, for a couple reasons

FRF has enemies that want to see FRF dead, what this means is a lot of the niceties that other sites enjoy, FRF can’t have.
I pay FRF bills and I am not Elon Musk and FRF is free. The server required to handle niceties, I don’t have money to afford.


What can you do? Curse the enemies and pray for their downfall. I am not really sure man but yeah this is the reason why some features from FRF are missing or go missing

Google search isn’t that bad, after all the whole planet uses it. You can search within FRF site and eventually able to find what you’re looking for and if it doesn’t exist then it doesn’t exist

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