I can't use "search"

[TheGrassGuy]

Every time I try clicking the button, nothing happens.

Search won't let me search. It'll only tell me I searched 5 seconds ago.

[hotdogPi]

Search got broken recently. It's not just you.

[1995hoo]

Which one are you using? The one up at the top right of the screen or the one next to the orange button that says "Home"? I used the latter last night and it worked reasonably well, though not perfectly (it returned four pages of results for what I entered, though it didn't find the post I think I remember and for which I was seeking—whether that's the search function or my faulty memory, who knows!).

[kphoger]

Which one are you using? The one up at the top right of the screen or the one next to the orange button that says "Home"? I used the latter last night and it worked reasonably well, though not perfectly (it returned four pages of results for what I entered, though it didn't find the post I think I remember and for which I was seeking—whether that's the search function or my faulty memory, who knows!).

I get a timeout error either way.  No matter which one I use, it returns this:

504 Gateway Time-out / nginx

[1995hoo]

I get a timeout error either way.  No matter which one I use, it returns this:

504 Gateway Time-out / nginx

That's interesting. I just tried it again on my PC (last night I was using my iPad) and it still worked for me. I wonder why it's inconsistent.

[kphoger]

I've just gone to using Google for searching on here.

{what do you like on your body site:www.aaroads.com}

[Rothman]

My kingdom for the search function to function again.  Google misses threads.

Also wish those Google search tips for AARoads that were buried in a thread somewhere were stickied...Thought it was Winkler who posted them?

[kphoger]

The site's search function works better if you restrict the search with certain criteria.  For example, if you remember who the user is who posted it, then filter by that user.  And any message age range helps it to not error out:  even just setting a range of 3 to 3000 days helps.  It's still not great even then, but it's a little better.

[Plutonic Panda]

Has there been any resolution to this? It hasn't worked for me for a long time. Right now I'm trying to find a thread about mass transit in St. Louis. Thank you, sir. Awesome awesome thank you you have to share that dude. I'm just putting pepper on the side. I'm gonna take that. Thank you looks great thank you brother. Better than me. I don't k the mount about of fries Roscoe's is better than dennys

[Roadgeekteen]

I've just gone to using Google for searching on here.

{what do you like on your body site:www.aaroads.com}

The only bad thing about thus is that it doesn't search boards only visible to members like travel and fictional highways.

[Roadgeekteen]

Has there been any resolution to this? It hasn't worked for me for a long time. Right now I'm trying to find a thread about mass transit in St. Louis. Thank you, sir. Awesome awesome thank you you have to share that dude. I'm just putting pepper on the side. I'm gonna take that. Thank you looks great thank you brother. Better than me. I don't k the mount about of fries Roscoe's is better than dennys

Yes, and mass transit is one of the guest inaccessible boards so Google doesn't work.

[Plutonic Panda]

Sorry about that weird message. I was using speech to text to write out a message and then the waiter came up to me and I guess it just kept recording what I was saying.

[Plutonic Panda]

Has there been any resolution to this? It hasn't worked for me for a long time. Right now I'm trying to find a thread about mass transit in St. Louis. Thank you, sir. Awesome awesome thank you you have to share that dude. I'm just putting pepper on the side. I'm gonna take that. Thank you looks great thank you brother. Better than me. I don't k the mount about of fries Roscoe's is better than dennys

Yes, and mass transit is one of the guest inaccessible boards so Google doesn't work.

Yeah, I guess I'm just gonna have to wait till I get back to the apartment tonight and just go through it manually. Thankfully, it's not a big board.

[Roadgeekteen]

Sorry about that weird message. I was using speech to text to write out a message and then the waiter came up to me and I guess it just kept recording what I was saying.

I was wondering what pepper and fries had to do about transit in St Louis.

[Max Rockatansky]

Try searching just one board.  I've had far more favorable results casting a narrow net.

[Roadgeekteen]

Try searching just one board.  I've had far more favorable results casting a narrow net.

Yeah, it appears that search works when searching "this board"

(If you are wondering my test search was "MMM" in this board).

[webny99]

Has there been any resolution to this? It hasn't worked for me for a long time. Right now I'm trying to find a thread about mass transit in St. Louis. Thank you, sir. Awesome awesome thank you you have to share that dude. I'm just putting pepper on the side. I'm gonna take that. Thank you looks great thank you brother. Better than me. I don't k the mount about of fries Roscoe's is better than dennys

Sorry about that weird message. I was using speech to text to write out a message and then the waiter came up to me and I guess it just kept recording what I was saying.

Ha! Don't apologize: that is genuinely hilarious! It's the AAroads version of "a drive into deep left field by Castellanos"

[hbelkins]

Has there been any resolution to this? It hasn't worked for me for a long time. Right now I'm trying to find a thread about mass transit in St. Louis. Thank you, sir. Awesome awesome thank you you have to share that dude. I'm just putting pepper on the side. I'm gonna take that. Thank you looks great thank you brother. Better than me. I don't k the mount about of fries Roscoe's is better than dennys

Sorry about that weird message. I was using speech to text to write out a message and then the waiter came up to me and I guess it just kept recording what I was saying.

Why do I have a feeling this one's gonna show up in the "favorite forum quotes" thread? 

[Plutonic Panda]

We were eating at Roscoe's chicken and waffles and instead of getting what I usually get the chicken and waffles I ordered chicken tenders and a side of french fries and the side of french fries probably could've been its own meal. I mean it was basically a mountain of fries. Easily had to been the biggest portion for a side of fries I've ever seen. I was so taken back by it. I had forgotten that I was writing a post on this forum.

[Roadgeekteen]

I just don't do text-to-speech in general, it always butchers what I have to say. Maybe the new AI technology can help it get better.

[kphoger]

Has there been any resolution to this? It hasn't worked for me for a long time. Right now I'm trying to find a thread about mass transit in St. Louis. Thank you, sir. Awesome awesome thank you you have to share that dude. I'm just putting pepper on the side. I'm gonna take that. Thank you looks great thank you brother. Better than me. I don't k the mount about of fries Roscoe's is better than dennys

That's some next level stream of consciousness writing, right there.

For what it's worth, I just did ...

Search for:  transit "st louis"

Message age:  between 100 and 4000 days

... and it worked fine.