Don't feel bad, neither do the folks that wrote the forum software, I think they just used the definition for random and added it to the bug list. It sure doesn't seem to work and I try to remember to tell folks not to use it when I suggest a search.
Getting it switched as the default would be a big plus.
There is no forum staff presence nights or weekends. Someone will be along Monday once they get finished with reading their e-mails and deleting forum spam.
Mark or Kellie might be willing to do some overtime but so far nobody has stepped up with an offer to pay them to be here 24x7.
OK! OK! OK! Call it failure to respond! Just kidding! Sorry guys, I did not mean to make you wait until today for an answer. I wrote up a reply Monday afternoon but I must have closed it out instead of posting. Go figure!
The default was chosen to keep all related topics together. The detailed information in each topic are grouped with all the associated posts indented underneath. However, you can use the advanced search by date but not as a default. I would have to change that option; however, that would change throughout the whole forum.
Not sure what that means. My request was that when you pull up the Advanced Search page, the default would be Date. A simple change to a default radio button causes forum-wide changes?
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Posts: 1828 | Location: Ephrata WA | Registered: April 03, 2002
Kellie, If the related function worked well I'd say leave it alone but the results from using it are so bad I have learned to tell anyone I send off searching here to switch to date order. something is very broken in the related option, Mark was mentioning issues with it a while back too.
I am not ignoring you, believe me! I'm not dead, and I am not on life support; I am still kickin'. BTW, I sent you a private message on the 12th of February. Apparently, you must not have received it or maybe ignored it.
I have switched the setting but it is not working. All I can say is that it is a glitch in ,as Mark calls it, Infopoop's program.
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