Search for user's thread
 

Is there away that I can search for a thread that a particular user posted in, without having to serach through every single forum?

goodo

It's not the most straightforward way of getting there, but the bottom line is yes, you can.

Find a post by that user. Any post. In any forum. You can search in one likely forum, for example, for that user.

Once you find a post by that user, click on the icon to view their profile.

When their profile comes up, there will be a link called "Search: All posts by this registered user." Click that, and poof, after 3 or 4 years, you'll have what you're looking for.

Thank DM. That's what I had used before, but I couldn't remember how to get there.

goodo

You can also use this url and replace XYZ with name of poster.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forumcgi/se...SearchUser=XYZ

goodo - that method will give you a max of only 300 posts acorss ALL forums. For you that might cover be several years, but for Doc (for instance) it might be several hours or days. :-)

However if you narrow down the specific FORUM you want to search there still will be 300 matches coming up.

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~ Glen ~

Hi folks, is this limitation due to the stress it would put on the server hardware? If so, maybe FT could start a fund for donations or something. I would certainly be willing to chip in a few bucks. I think the search function is the only downside to this board. It is really hard to find certain topics that you arent sure what forum they are to appear in.

Yep, we turned off the global search to reduce load on the server. It's not as much a hardware issue, as it is the inefficiency of the source code in handling a board that gets as much traffic as we do. The UBB search process is inherently resource intensive. Granted, our new server is much faster and stronger than the old one, but the global search still monopolizes the CPUs and slows down everything else...

There have been other issues cropping up regarding the board and corruption problems, so we're more interested in finding a more efficient board solution, rather than going the hardware route for now.