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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

The search function is one click away from useless. It really bothers me when I see someone ask a question on the forums and some nimrod always chimes in saying use the search function. When it rarely gives results it doesn’t appear to give any weight to a thread title. Maybe just throw a Google search box up there instead. At least it would be better.

Here is a search I just did on a very popular term and you can see the results. My screen cap didn’t get the full page but it was 3 results.

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Posted by: Uruvion.8309

Uruvion.8309

i have found this even if you type in one word from the post at the top of a forum page it still says none found this sucks and if working would make this form 100% better the fact that this thread has been going for so long and its still broken is not a good look for the devs they make a great game and some good content every month but they don’t have a working search bar ?

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Posted by: Vaugh.7193

Vaugh.7193

they make a great game and some good content every month but they don’t have a working search bar ?

Working with the web and the game is quite diffrent, most likeley not the same staff.

A good designed game doesnt mean you have a bug free website.

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Posted by: MarauderKing.4572

MarauderKing.4572

It’s been broken for what – 2 months now?

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Posted by: tovadaun.6304

tovadaun.6304

This is still broken? It seems everything is. I just lost my Holographic Shattered Wings. Because there were 0 Results for bugs with them. Thank you, ANet. Now I find out from someone on my server that it is NOT a bug with my wings… That it’s a BUG with Your Search Function. And my wings are gone. I have a Support ticket in, and they most likely will tell me I’m hosed… Most likely due to some OLD FORUM POST that I had NO WAY of finding….
Seriously? WtHeck is the issue with this????

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Posted by: Sagramor.7395

Sagramor.7395

Any updates on this? Kind of annoying.

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Posted by: Engel Angel.9076

Engel Angel.9076

This is beyond ridiculous… it’s so ridiculous it ain’t even funny anymore.

There is no way to find anything on this forum other than to make a new post,
and then you get yelled at for not finding the x number of other posts that already talk about your post’s subject.

This is a worldwide MMORPG coming on par with WOW and such, and the webmasters can’t even make a decent forum… oO?

This is the only problem I’ve ever found that never seem to be addressed, almost as if they purposefully avoid mentioning it…

“A single picture is worth a thousand words”

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Posted by: Pixelpumpkin.4608

Pixelpumpkin.4608

There is no way to find anything on this forum other than to make a new post,
and then you get yelled at for not finding the x number of other posts that already talk about your post’s subject.

Well, you can.

https://www.google.de/?q=site:forum-en.guildwars2.com+%22fix+the+search%22

google works a lot better than the forum search ever did.

But it’s still kind of embarrassing that the forum search isn’t working, especially when the ToC state that you must use it.

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Posted by: Glen Runciter.8962

Glen Runciter.8962

no find, very much topics about the same thing

support team not responding. is on holiday? is singing songs?

if want keep nice job then keep do nuthin’. I envy you

have nice days and let google do your work.

I bad in english – sorry if I offend you.

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Posted by: Glen Runciter.8962

Glen Runciter.8962

Ryan Alyea.5418 of the support forum announced this bug as being fixed 29 days ago. If I want to be kind I believe him that he got a ‘fixed report’. But it looks like he neither tested if this fix worked nor followed this topic.

I’m sorry, but I reported him as being unreliable.

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Posted by: Naii.9810

Naii.9810

Searched “guardian” in a thread about guardians in the guardian subforum, 0 results.

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Posted by: Graendall.4765

Graendall.4765

I recently made a thread about my guild titled Necrosis Greek WvW guild on Piken Square and when i use the search bar and type words like..Necrosis or Greek i find nothing..it says 0 results…any ideas of what might be the problem?

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

This is a big reason why the search function needs to work aside from the fact that it, well, just doesn’t work.

POSTERSNAMEREMOVEDBECAUSEIAMNICE:

Did you really need to make a new thread on this?

Learn to use the search function.

It just give’s some people that are waiting to act like nimrods something to work with.

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Posted by: Glen Runciter.8962

Glen Runciter.8962

This seems to be a .com issue only! At least the search on .de and .es are working.

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Posted by: Hebee.8460

Hebee.8460

The search has not worked for me for a long time. Searching on the engineer forums for “Hobo” gets me nothing, & I know very well about the many concerns about eng’s “Hobo Sacks”

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Posted by: skullmount.1758

skullmount.1758

Still not working for me either. I want to do a search in the guild recruitment, but it just keeps saying no matches found…

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Posted by: Mash Hog.5672

Mash Hog.5672

We have been having this issue over half a year now.
And no, the issue has NOT been solved.

Another issue is that when I search something it throws up topics that have NOTHING to do with the topic I searched for.

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Posted by: hermescragsniper.2713

hermescragsniper.2713

Still not working guys! Where are the web programmers?!

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Posted by: Psylem.1529

Psylem.1529

So, I was on the Necromancer forum and decided to search for “fear” – no results. The second topic on the page had “Fear” in the title and “fear” multiple times in the post. It can’t be a case matching problem.

Came to this forum to search for problems with searching (reminds me of an xzibit[sp?] meme), but guess what – no results when I searched for “search”……..

Fix it please and thank you!

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Posted by: Portal Master.9146

Portal Master.9146

Please fix search, for great justice

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Posted by: Paigey.2047

Paigey.2047

Fix the search already!! It’s not like this forum has been live for nearly a year now…

FoW roamer
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Posted by: Miggz.8213

Miggz.8213

First problem drove me to your search. Useless description of the daily for “Daily Activity Participation” Which says NOTHING. Then I try to search the forums and just trying to type it in is a pain because the search is cutting me of trying to active real time search for something it believes is not there.

You know I like to type in everything.. Not get cut off. (See google, and how it works)

So instinct tells me to drop to Google and search and I’m redirected to your forums.

0/10 for your search engine. Seems like this has been dragging on for a while.

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

Please fix this search function. I’m getting tired of seeing people post snide comments like, “try using the search next time.” If there is no plan to fix it then at least toss a Google search box up there. If not that then just remove it all together because it is misleading.

I know it might seem like a trivial thing considering the entirety of the game but it doesn’t give a good impression that’s for sure.

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Posted by: XingWongBochChoi.9854

XingWongBochChoi.9854

This is still broken? It seems everything is. I just lost my Holographic Shattered Wings. Because there were 0 Results for bugs with them. Thank you, ANet. Now I find out from someone on my server that it is NOT a bug with my wings… That it’s a BUG with Your Search Function. And my wings are gone. I have a Support ticket in, and they most likely will tell me I’m hosed… Most likely due to some OLD FORUM POST that I had NO WAY of finding….
Seriously? WtHeck is the issue with this????

Quoted for emphasis.

Seriously, is this never going to be fixed?

Auskaaaaaaa~

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Posted by: Hawatak.8049

Hawatak.8049

First time I come in this section, apparently Anet can fail on every aspects, not only PvP. This forum has always sucked, Log In issues, broken links, search not working, and so on and so forth.

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Posted by: Velyanthe.6894

Velyanthe.6894

In the suggestions subforum, I got one result for searching “U”. I was actually intending to look for “UI”—there was even a thread on the front page with that in the title. So yeah, still broken.

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

Wow only 11 results for the word “guardian”. I would have guessed during the entire history of this forum that there would be many more posts and threads on the topic. I guess the search function doesn’t lie though. O_o

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Posted by: SilverWF.4789

SilverWF.4789

Search still not working

Maybe it will be better with the any phpBB engine?

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Posted by: Equinox.4968

Equinox.4968

Same problem here, I was just in the “show off your thief” thread and I looked up some of the exact words, spelling, capitalization and all, that were right in front of me on the page…0 results. I don’t get it.

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Posted by: Aiglos.2907

Aiglos.2907

“Elementalist”/“elementalist” in the Elementalist forum comes up with 0 results for me.
Surprisingly, “nerf”, in the same forum, comes up with 0 results also :P

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Posted by: rfdarko.4639

rfdarko.4639

It’s fine if they need time to fix it, but they need to update the dev comment which at the moment is patently untrue.

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Posted by: Portal Master.9146

Portal Master.9146

I think the patch nerfed searches on this website. Please reverse those changes.

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

I think the patch nerfed searches on this website. Please reverse those changes.

The forum search has been on the verge of useless for some time now. It isn’t related to the most recent patch.

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Posted by: Salome.5329

Salome.5329

yeh search is still broken. If I search via google it works but if I search using search its utterly broken.

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Posted by: Makovorn.1706

Makovorn.1706

Oh come on. This is still not working? Surely the developers must know something’s cooking here. The benefit of a working search function is self evident, but very importantly, it also helps to solve some issues of double-posting, which is rife on this forum.

I’ve always been a huge fan of how Guild Wars 2 Guru did it – a proper search, together with a built-in automated search when you start new threads, to alert you if similar topics exists.

More than a year ago, the CM’s and devs started to have a lesser presence on this fan-site (possibly the biggest and longest running), because they wanted to establish their own forums to act as an official “home-base” for all things Guild Wars 2.

While they did an amazing job with the graphics design, it boggles the mind that something as foundational as a search function, is still not working … more than a year later. I don’t even …

Sorry if this comes off as harsh, but really guys … really.

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Posted by: sazberryftw.3809

sazberryftw.3809

Sometimes I imagine Anet have a big paper list pinned up on the fridge of all the bugs that need fixing. They stare at it everyday and say, “We’ll do that one… tomorrow!”. Then someone walks in and says, “HEY GUIZ THERE’S IMPORTANT MATTERS TO ADDRESS ON THE BLACK LION TP FORUM!”. -list falls off into a pile of poop as every soul in the room runs out the door-

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Posted by: JustTrogdor.7892

JustTrogdor.7892

Honestly I think part of Anet’s concern should be how the busted up search function reflects on their product for potential new players. If I had come to the forum to see what people were talking about as far as the game and tried to do a few searches and get maybe 1 result that was relevant I might wonder what else is going on as far as the game itself.

Perhaps they should have just gone with a clean and simple phpBB or similar and put less worry on the graphics. Sure it looks nice and all but it would look nicer if I could search for things and find them. My default search function for this forum now is Google where I type “Guild Wars 2 forum (what I’m looking for)” The results are 1000X better. Then again I don’t think 1000 X 0 makes much sense. Let’s just say it gives me actual results.

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Posted by: RoyHarmon.5398

RoyHarmon.5398

I just want to point out that you should also be careful with the “Backspace” key.

Pressing it too many times will result in unintended browser navigation.

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and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.”
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Posted by: Portal Master.9146

Portal Master.9146

I think the patch nerfed searches on this website. Please reverse those changes.

The forum search has been on the verge of useless for some time now. It isn’t related to the most recent patch.

Lol. I still think they ‘nerfed’ the search. If they didn’t you could have searched this thread and see I bump it occasionally for great justice.

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Posted by: RoyHarmon.5398

RoyHarmon.5398

I think they took off every “zig” several months ago. Prior to that, it had mostly been functional.

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and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.”
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Posted by: Boom.6148

Boom.6148

Yo Dawg, I heard you like to search so I did a search on Search. But it didn’t search. At all.

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Posted by: Findecano.8124

Findecano.8124

I’m not sure if this has been clarified, because, you know… normally I would search for it. But a few things might help shed light:

  1. Some people CAN search, but search results are unreliable or come up blank. This is what the OP and Dev post appears to address.
  2. Some people CANNOT utilize the search function at all, which are what some subsequent posts have complained about.

I fall into category 2. This problem exists across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The fact that I use a Mac seems irrelevant, but I’ll offer that anyway. Given cross-browser problems, I can almost assure you this is not an addon issue, but, for the record, Safari has zero addons, Firefox has usual things like Google Talk, QuickTime, and Java. Chrome has Evernote Web Clipper, an ad blocker, and an Amazon linker app… but I’m not really seeing any overlap that might be the root of these issues.

As far as what specifically happens when I try to search (across all 3 browsers), I go to the search field, type something in, and when I hit enter – oddly enough – all of the page numbers disappear. Nothing else happens. There is no loading or actual activity thereafter that I can visibly discern. At first I didn’t realize the page numbers disappeared, but sure enough…

Hope that might help.

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Posted by: Glen Runciter.8962

Glen Runciter.8962

I monitored the network traffic while typing the search phrase. The server gives 404 errors (page not found).

The request is done with a anonymized URL which may be different for each user.
The request contains a authenticity token (some kind of temporary user id?).

Only some users seem to have this problem and in this cases the search functionality is constantly not working.

This looks like an intentional ‘denial of service’!

The search is not working, because it is directed to a non-existent URL. This is not related to cookies or browsers. It’s definitely happening on the server and it’s definitely related to user accounts.

When I began playing GW2 I was very annoyed of the Wiki (it’s much better now) and I expressed that in rude forum posts which have been abandoned. Is this the reason why the search has been disabled? I can’t follow my own posts now. Is this some kind of punishment? This would be a very bad policy.

Here’s the HTTP-Request:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/search/topic/252142.json?q=search+&authenticity_token=yKQ9yU2xDYnPn1Xuak5vTTEusByP0JflsD0vz12XJgo%3D

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Posted by: Dari Kun.2370

Dari Kun.2370

I’m unable to use the search bar at all. I’m able to type what I want in there, but I can’t actually execute the search, whether I press enter or click the search button, I get nothing.

Officer Dari of “Those Who Whisper Fire”

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Posted by: kossman.8206

kossman.8206

Hey.. Just wanted to let someone know that the search feature is broke!!!

Still!!

/sarcasm off

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Posted by: ibeo.6732

ibeo.6732

my god…what good is a game forum without search?

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

I’m unable to use the search bar at all. I’m able to type what I want in there, but I can’t actually execute the search, whether I press enter or click the search button, I get nothing.

Same. It used to pretend to search, now nothing. When I type in ‘search’ on this forum it didn’t even show zero results. The search bar works like its searching but then nothing happens.

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Posted by: Mystiq Angelic.8193

Mystiq Angelic.8193

It’s been days since my long return to GW2 and I can’t use the forum search as well.
I tried search function in different browers – IE, Chrome and none of them are working.
When I typed in a key word like “berserker” or “Mesmer” in any forum and the search function is non responding; I could not even click the search mini icon. Real time search is not working at all.

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Posted by: effybuttonmoon.4607

effybuttonmoon.4607

Is this gonna be fixed anytime? In the main page it doesn’t do anything. In the rest, most of the time doesn’t do anything either, then sometimes it will give 2 results even though i know there are more. It sometimes will give say no results when i know for a fact there is something. What is going on, why can’t there be a working search option is such a well used forum? This is a complete pain in the kitten, navigating posts has to be done by going through everything which takes ages. It really puts me off these forums, please look into it and stop ignoring. -.-