Search Not Working. Again.

[Steve Mack]

@Brandon @lumberjack I would have bumped the old thread but I can't find it obviously.

Hasn't worked for me for a couple of weeks now.

 

[Kaveman]

Same problem, just tells me "an error occurred, try again later" which reminds me of looking under a soda cap.

 

[lumberjack]

Thanks @Steve Mack , I got a message from a Burn this weekend and added Brandon to it. Haven’t heard from him yet.

 

[Nutball]

So, what causes it, and can the problem be patched?

 

[Raj]

I tried to search for a patch for the problem but the search function didn't work.

 

[Knotorious]

If the search function is ever down and you know what, roughly, the name or verbiage is for a thread title, then just go to Google.com and search for "believed title of thread" + "masterblaster" + "tree house" (without the plus signs or quotations OR ...."AND" in between each aspect of the search) and it will usually appear in the results below. Please don't feel like you need the forum search engine to locate elusive threads. You can use Bing as well. Any of the major search engines. You just need to get your query and booleans in check.

#ThatGuyWithTheFacts

 

[Nutball]

The search worked for me a day ago. How do I search Google for keywords posted by a specific member Mr Knots?

 

[Knotorious]

You would do "search keyboards e.g. name or title of thread" + "masterblaster.com" + "@Username" + "Tree House Forum" or something to that effect.

 

[Burnham]

Working for me today. First time online since last Sunday, I think.

 

[Nutball]

Me too. Thanks

 

[lumberjack]

Hmm, is it working for everyone? Brandon reset it, then reset it again on 1/5. It's working for me.

 

[Knotorious]

Working.

 

[Kaveman]

I don't care, so long as the forum as a whole works, details are small beans!

Dunno where I'd be if I lost this fine group of folks.

P.S. thanks everyone for putting up with me.

 

[Nutball]

I wonder if a patch could automatically reset the search function every week/day/hour? I'm not having problems now, just an idea.

 

[Knotorious]

Anyone else suddenly unable to add images to a post via the toolbar at the top of the message box? I can only add an image via an attachment now. Why is that?

 

[lxskllr]

Works for me. Maybe try restarting your browser?

 

[Knotorious]

Restarted browser. Still can't add images via toolbar. Let me try deleting the cache.

 

[Knotorious]

Cleared cache. Didn't work. Not sure what's going. I'm disinclined to delete cookies and search history because they make my life much easier. Anyone have any ideas as to what's going on? I'm use Google Chrome.

 

[lxskllr]

Using any javascript tools, or anything that interacts with web js libraries? Try a private window with all addons disabled.

 

[Knotorious]

@lxskllr You're a smart guy! The post box tool bar image addition feature works using a Chrome Incognito window.



Say "hello" to Harry Winston, the finest Labrador Retriever east of the Mississippi!

@lxskllr, so what does this mean? Do I have to delete cookies and history? Probably. Lame sauce. Ugh.

 

[lxskllr]

Not necessarily. Start with smallest impact, and build on it. There's a lot of places the error could be introduced. If you run addons, and disabled them for the test, start adding them back one at a time. If all that works, delete the site cookies for this forum. You shouldn't lose anything important. After that, start looking at web storage. You said you cleared cache, but it may have left something behind; perhaps some google libraries. That's the end of stuff I can just think about. I'd have to start poking around and thinking about it in person. I don't use chrome, so there may be something particular about that browser that's messing things up.

 

[Burnham]

John is a real asset to those of us like me who can barely make the interwebs do our bidding without real trouble .

 

[Knotorious]

I ended up a) updating chrome, which did nothing. I then a) deleted cookies and b) deleted search history, and then restarted Chrome. This solved the issue. I was right! Yay me! If I had to guess, search history probably had nothing to do with it. It was likely entirely the result of cookies from third parties. Hopefully this works for anyone else who encounters this issue. Thanks, @lxskllr, for your assistance.