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Taylor

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Is anyone else having problems with the search function on Puritan Board? For the past couple days, every inquiry I enter returns with a message that a server error occurred.
 
I'm getting that now as well, though it was working for me as recently as yesterday.
 
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.
 
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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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.
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.
 
"Tech Department" was in Germany on business travel when this happened again and had to login from a hotel room to get this fixed.
 
Trying to look up old PB threads on cessationism and getting the “Oops!” error message again
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.
 
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