Administrator Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Afternoon all - after several weeks locked away in a dark room our technical boffins now believe they have fixed the search facility on this forum...i'll leave this thread open so if you use it this weekend and still experience any problems you can let us know here! We hope you all have great weekends whatever you're doing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Thanks chaps, and we hope you have now all emerged blinking and triumphant into the light, and not suffered too much in the process! :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 just tried it, returned server error and logged me off, more time in that dark room methinks. :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 I've been getting either the server error when I try to post, or a very long "hang" before the post is accepted. Most times the post has, eventually, registered, but on about three occasions today I've had extremely long hangs, then the server error message, then been bounced off the forum, and had to log back in with username and password afterwards. Coincidence, or consequence, I wonder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Posted May 28, 2010 Author Share Posted May 28, 2010 Thanks for your comments. We'll see how it goes over the weekend and I'll let them know on Tuesday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupert123 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Just tried it and all worked fine. Did a search for posts over period of one year and reaction was pretty fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_C Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Searching on the main forum sections (e.g. selecting 'Motorhomes' or 'Caravans') gives an internal server error, but selecting individual subsections (e.g. selecting 'Motorhome Matters' or Caravan Chat' to search seems to work much better than it used to. Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennyhb Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Blimey! just had to have a large G&T it worked. like Brian it appears to stall when posting and gives a server error but it posts OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Been having a further play with search. It seems that searching an individual sub section like 'motorhome matters' works, searching section like 'motorhomes' returns 'server error' and you get logged off, search all forums and it stalls. Also earlier today in chatter box I made a post in 'driving instructors' thread which displays when the thread is opened but when looking in section the last post indicated is some 3 beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 colin - 2010-05-28 7:19 PM ........Also earlier today in chatter box I made a post in 'driving instructors' thread which displays when the thread is opened but when looking in section the last post indicated is some 3 beforehand. Seconded! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Thirded - it was ages before my post on the 'Classic Campers' thread showed up as the latest one. I got the server error screen, got booted off and had to log in again. In edit: Have just tried the 'Search' facility and it worked perfectly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnersgroupie Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Remarkable how the search facility starts working just days after an alternative motorhome website comes up for sale. Perhaps warners group bought the search technology? Anyway the old thread seems to have disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_C Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 warnersgroupie - 2010-05-30 11:22 AM Remarkable how the search facility starts working just days after an alternative motorhome website comes up for sale. Which one? Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnersgroupie Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MOTORHOME-CAMPER-VAN-SOCIAL-NETWORKING-WEBSITE-SALE-/260610309464?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_B_I_Business_for_Sale_CV&hash=item3cad95bd58 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_C Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 warnersgroupie - 2010-05-30 5:53 PM http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MOTORHOME-CAMPER-VAN-SOCIAL-NETWORKING-WEBSITE-SALE-/260610309464?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_B_I_Business_for_Sale_CV&hash=item3cad95bd58 Ah - not much going on there, I think the price is a tad on the optimistic side :-) I see your ad for the site on the Wildcamping forum was pulled... Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Why would you want to buy a website that is virtually 'dead'? As far as I can see there's little activity on there!!! 8-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithl Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Where does his mythical value of £2,499 come from? If you run the website name through Website value calculator you get a value of 78 dollars! A bit more of a realistic price I think. Keith. Edit Sorry, I forgot the 99 pence on the end. It's £2,499.99! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_C Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Keithl - 2010-05-30 8:45 PM Where does his mythical value of £2,499 come from? If you run the website name through Website value calculator you get a value of 78 dollars! A bit more of a realistic price I think. Keith. Edit Sorry, I forgot the 99 pence on the end. It's £2,499.99! I wouldn't take too much notice of the Website value calculator's 'valuation' of a website! Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Back to this website ... just done another posting on my "Stinky battery" thread and yet again I got the dreaded 'server error' message, but this time instead of pressing the back button and submitting the message again, I opened another tab on the browser and went to the forum again and lo and behold although it didn't show that there had been another posting at that time, when I went into the thread it was there, so no double posting. I don't know what the 'MMM moles' have been doing in their dark room but it looks likes it's caused another problem now! :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Aaarggghhhh ... the ruddy thing's just done it again, had to go to another tab on the browser to get back here ... I've had enough for tonight, I'm off to another forum that works properly, sorry guys.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnersgroupie Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Mel B - 2010-05-30 7:44 PM Why would you want to buy a website that is virtually 'dead'? As far as I can see there's little activity on there!!! 8-) Maybe the search facility works SOOOOO well you can find what you want and don't have to post YET another message repeating topics that have been raised countless times before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warnersgroupie Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 Mel B - 2010-05-30 7:44 PM Why would you want to buy a website that is virtually 'dead'? As far as I can see there's little activity on there!!! 8-) Maybe the search facility works SOOOOO well you can find what you want and don't have to post YET another message repeating topics that have been raised countless times before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordThornber Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 I've posted twice now on Dave's driving instructor thread and neither have appeared. On one occasion it showed as me posting last, but there's nowt there, just as Brian is currently being credited with being the last to post on it and he too is absent. Daft. Martyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Reports of my absence, on this occasion, are not exaggerated! The posts are acknowledged on the system, but do not appear. Invisible virtual ink? Oh yes, and this one does not come up as a "New thread" - which in any case should surely be "New Posts"?Even odder, the paragraph above was an edit, after which it became visible as a New thread!! Methinks someone has somehow got the search and the posting functions intermixed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 What the heck is going on! My Chausson Flash 04 thread that I've updated is showing 7 May as the date at the top of the Motorhome Matters forum! 8-) It took me ages to get it to show in the first place, having to put a second mini-posting (I hate the server...) to get it to even show! And it kept logging me off too .... 8o| Now the ruddy thing has disappeared again!!!!!!! 8-) I don't know what they've done but this is even more frustrating than having a search facility that has a paddy most of the time ... nothing worse than doing a great long posting to then find you 'might' have lost the lot! Fortunately I saved a copy in Word first! ;-) I'm off to get a bath ... work tomorrow. :-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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