2oldman wrote:
Official 2kw Champ inverter thread
Good thing I kept it. Having a hard time finding it in a search (and I'm pretty good at that.)
I agree with your assessment; you're as good as I've seen.
Here is the problem with finding this thread (and it would have been a problem when the search engine was really powerful.)
As you know, when a thread has been inactive for 12 months, it is supposed to be locked and moved to the archives. (More about that below.) The normal search only finds posts made in the last 12 months and an archival search should find posts that are more than 12 months old.
What happens if a thread is still active, but has posts that are more than 12 months old? None of the posts are archived, hence an archival search cannot find them. But a regular search can't find them either; a regular search only looks at posts made in the last 12 months.
To illustrate: A subject line search for "official" should find a thread titled
The Official unofficial CPE 2000i Generator Thread. But the originating post was made in in 2010. Hence, a regular search will not find it. Since the thread is still active, the originating post has not been archived, so an archival search will not find it either.
To find the thread using the forum's search engine, you would have to know a keyword in a post that has been added to the thread in the last 12 months.
Champion is in the last post made. So a search for
Champion will find the thread. Alas, it would also help is you knew that the last post was made in February; the post would be found on page 6 of the search results.
More about archiving: In late April 2013, the forum software stopped properly archiving posts. Any post more that 12 months old that was made after late April 2013 cannot be found by the search engine.
Tom
