Not Allowed to .... Search?!?

[Essence]

I tried to simply search for 'steam engine adrenaline' in the Steam Engine thread (using the search bar in the upper right, set to 'this thread'), and I got an 'you are not allowed to search in this thread' error.

Is that fixable?



Thanks!

[willng3]

Yeah it's happening to everyone it seems.  Dunno what's up with that; I can't fix mine either.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Interestingly, the "member search" function is still working, yet the general search function isn't.

[Camoninja]

Yes! I was searching and I got this! I'm glad the computer isn't hating me!

[YawnChainHow]

I have this too. Ugh. This is no fun.

Temporary workaround (if you didn't know it already): Go to Google (http://www.google.com/), and in the search box, type whatever you wanted to search for. Then, add a space and paste

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:site:http://elementscommunity.org/forum/at the end. It just tells Google to search this forum specifically. Unfortunately, specifying a specific thread, or even a specific subforum, doesn't work.

So if you were Essence and wanted to search "steam machine adrenaline", you'd enter "steam machine adrenaline :site:http://elementscommunity.org/forum/" into the search box.
>Result< (http://www.google.com/search?q=steam+machine+adrenaline+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Felementscommunity.com%2Fforum%2F&hl=en&biw=1680&bih=846&num=10&lr=&ft=i&cr=&safe=images&tbs=#sclient=psy&hl=en&lr=&source=hp&q=steam+machine+adrenaline+:site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Felementscommunity.com%2Fforum%2F&fp=f17ae772ca1ea813)

Any better fix would be dandy.

[Scaredgirl]

Search is temporary disabled for maintenance, and will take a few hours because of the huge pile of topics and posts we have. I will enable it after maintenance is over.

Meanwhile you can do what YawnChainHow suggested, or pick "Google" from the forum search drop-down menu.

[Terrilocks]

Soooo... any update on this? A few hours has turned into a week. xD

[YawnChainHow]

For those that haven't noticed already, search works!