Forum search oddness?

[ELinder]

I was searching for topics on Hi8 tapes for a friend and noticed a search oddness. The standard search brings up forum results, but the advance forum only search finds no matches at all.

Erich

[Winsordawson]

After some troubleshooting, it appears that the advanced search will not search for phrases that are three characters or less. You can either search for a longer, similar topic like "Digital8", since those decks can usually play HI8, or use the standard Google search.

[ELinder]

Thanks for looking into it.

Erich

[admin]

We'll see about fixing it with the next forum update. MySQL and the forum need some tweaks to allow 3 characters. It used to be possible, and may have been broken with the server move way back in 2015. Nobody reported it until now.