Search Issues
- Thread starter Taylor
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hammondjones
Puritan Board Junior
Did not work for me just now
Santiago DO
Puritan Board Freshman
Me too
This happened the other day I think. @NaphtaliPress @Semper Fidelis
arapahoepark
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Didn't work for me for a while last week. Was working and now it's not again...
CHSalzgeber
Puritan Board Freshman
It's not working for me at all.
I sent another not to Rich.
The search cluster keeps crashing. It's working now.
Berean
Puritanboard Commissioner
I just searched "bawb" and it's working fine. Thanks!
Rich says the search function has been crashing every week for some reason, so expect on and off working to continue till there is a fix.
thespacepop
Puritan Board Freshman
I am not sure of this is a well known work around but one can use google to search the site. Just add "site: puritanboard.com'" without the space to your google search and all of the results will be limited to the site.
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Jake
Puritan Board Senior
Doesn't work for the numerous member-only areas though.
I just increased the memory alocated to the Elasticsearch cluster that powers our search feature. Hopefully that will resolve the instability issue.
alexanderjames
Puritan Board Freshman
Seems not to be working again
Tech dept. has been informed!
Give kudos to our tech dept who can reach fixed the search while in Europe.
"Tech Department" was in Germany on business travel when this happened again and had to login from a hotel room to get this fixed.
Clemson_Gentleman
Puritan Board Freshman
Trying to look up old PB threads on cessationism and getting the “Oops!” error message again
Search engine playing up again
Working just now for me.
pgwolv
Puritan Board Freshman
As you are talking about old threads, the platform changed at a point, interfering with the URLs.
There are two things to know.
1) With the URL for an old thread, after "puritanboard.com," replace the first code (e.g. f63) with "threads" and delete everything between the last forward slash and the post number, including the period. Thus https://www.puritanboard.com/f63/responding-james-white-aomin-44382 becomes https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/44382
2) To find a specific post, based on its old URL: It's a tedious process. If you look at the special link to any post on the current platform, you will see that each post is assigned a chronological number based on the exact time it was made. For instance, JB's post is the 388956th post made on the PB. The thread numbers are also in chronological order from when they were posted. If you go to https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/31573, that is the thread in which the post was made. To get there, I first guessed a thread number, let's say https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/30000. Then I look at a post's link to determine how close I am, according to the post number. That page has only the main thread, no extra comment, so it is not useful. https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/30001 does have extra comments. The first comment is https://www.puritanboard.com/threads/did-st-Paul-parse-verbs.30001/post-364918. So we are 24000 comments before the one you were looking for... From there it is a matter of zooming in until you strike the jackpot. Note that, within a thread, the post numbers do not always follow directly, because other posts were made in other threads on the same day.
If anyone is still struggling to find an old post, please contact me and I will gladly help you.
