Guest KatieKat Posted January 23, 2017 Report Posted January 23, 2017 Is this how you ‘search’ on aff now?? This is ridiculous. I have to create a post and hope that someday someone responds to the post and hope that the person responding actually knows the story I’m talking about?? If I wanted to go to a forum I would have clicked the ‘forum’ option on the actual site. This may be just annoying enough to stop using the site. Bad move AFF...bad move Quote
BronxWench Posted January 23, 2017 Report Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) We still have a search function on the archive. In fact, it has expanded to allow for searching by tags as well as by author, title, summary, and/or category. You can find it within each subdomain, at the top left side of the page, right above the Categories listing. Edited January 23, 2017 by BronxWench edited to add link to FAQ entry on the search function Quote
pippychick Posted January 23, 2017 Report Posted January 23, 2017 Hi Just to add, the “Searching for a Fic?” section of the forum is more helpful to people who are looking for a story they read a long time ago, where they might only remember very vague details or certain plot points. If you know some details about the story you are looking for, the search on the archive itself should find it much more easily for you. Quote
DemonGoddess Posted January 24, 2017 Report Posted January 24, 2017 This forum section replaces all the “searching for” unstories that littered the archives for years. The true search FUNCTION is accessible from the upper left corner, just below the menu in each subdomain. Quote
Guest I tried Posted January 26, 2017 Report Posted January 26, 2017 I looked in the upper left hand corner of the sub domain I wanted...nothing. There is no search function there. And the search box on the right only searches the forums...not stories. I know because I typed in the title of a story I found this morning and the result was a ton of posts with one word of the title Quote
BronxWench Posted January 26, 2017 Report Posted January 26, 2017 (edited) Unbeknownst to me when I first responded, we’ve embarked on an update to make the menus functional for mobile users. ::sigh:: Go to the story subdomain in question. At the very top of the page, above the new top listing of subcategories, is a clickable for “Search Archive.” It moved over from the left hand side to the top. It still works exactly as described, however. As far as the Forum search, the Forum and Archive are two separate entities. You can’t search the Forum for Archive stories, only for posts relating to those stories. That has never changed. I am going to go have more coffee, liberally spiked with whiskey and Valium, because it’s been that sort of week. Edited January 26, 2017 by BronxWench DemonGoddess 1 Quote
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