Originally Posted by
SkyTeam777
Id be interested to know if FT has seen a drop in traffic since the new search began. I certainly have cut my time on FT by 75-80% since I cant easily search for threads like before and I seem to not have replies to threads older than 2-3 days (whereas in the past I would scroll down and find posts to threads as old as 2-3 weeks, a complete indication that the new search is not performing its job for others as well). This is very sad, and FT has yet to switch back to the old version. I wonder how many people will switch to other message boards for posting related airline topics. Ive noticed a lot more FFP related posts on airliners.net lately...is that going to steal FTers away?! Hope not, but who knows.
The subscribed threads workaround I described below might help:
Originally Posted by
bostonbali
Most frustrating to me has been the Search > Advanced Search >
Search by User Name.
That's how I keep up with threads where I've had input (where I posted). The current search feature does NOT allow me to see those posts, organized by most recent post date (as the old search feature did).
This limits the usefulness of FT to me at the moment, which is a shame...
While it's only a work-around, and it only works if you use the default auto-subscribe to all threads to which you post, Quick Links>
Subscribed Threads will be ordered by the thread with the most recent post to it on top (the same way the threads list in the forums do). This is what I've been using for years to track both the threads where I've posted and those where I've subscribed (even though I haven't posted in them).
This doesn't depend on the indexing being up to date, but works in real-time like the forum index does.
Last edited by ed1; Mar 2, 2008 at 3:33 pm