Tonight I wanted to search for some threads so that I could look up some answers for fellow posters, and I knew the name of a couple of posters who had posted in them. Looking up my own posts isn't going to help me any because I'm a blabber mouth and have way too many posts to my credit to look through. However, it would have been very easy for me to find the threads if I were to have free reign to search how I want, the way the forum was before the change, and before you turned off 1/2 of the search function of the old forum. What's wrong with letting us search by thread name? What's wrong with letting us search by "word string"? What's wrong with letting us search by user name? I'm not at all satisfied with the answer given to us about user name search. Since when did this become the CIA? When I search for something in a forum I depend on certain things to help me find what I'm looking for: 1. Thread Name; 2. Remembering approximate time period the thread was created; 3. User Name; 4. Key words from the thread subject title or remembering something posted within the thread itself. All of those help me find what I need via search. I don't recall a time when I couldn't find what I was looking for until you turned off 1/2 of the search function before the change. Now since the forum change over I can't find anything at all!!!!!! A) You've killed off #1. Now the search pulls up the first line of the thread, which is totally, totally useless when trying to search anything. Even if you have pulled up the thread you want you'll never know because there is no thread title; B) You've killed off #2. The results are no longer sorted chronilogically, and instead by "relevence", which means that what I am seeking could be on page 10 of the search results, only I'll never know because I can't see the title of the thread I'm looking for! C) You've killed off #3. And according to a recent post by a site admin, it was an "executive decision" and done on purpose and not coming back. D) You've killed #4. See A, B and C above. As I've stated numerous times now. The search feature of this forum has been rendered completely useless. You may as well turn if off altogether and save on server speed for all the good it is in the state that it's in. Am I mad? You bet! And I'm also very, very frustrated.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi