[mlo]

"Most of the complaints about the software arise from features that used to be there but have disappeared, or never worked well in the first place such as the search mechanism."

I've seen people complain about search not finding something many times. But every time I've done it works. I put that down to people not knowing how to search. They are too specific and include punctuation and other things that might vary.

[paulycy]

I put that down to people not knowing how to search.

That's certainly possible too. Complaining about the search is common here, though, and many including myself use google or somesuch rather than relying on the in-house search mechanism if we want to find something quickly.

I'm not trying to bash, I'm just mentioning examples.

[metmom]

I've seen people complain about search not finding something many times. But every time I've done it works. I put that down to people not knowing how to search. They are too specific and include punctuation and other things that might vary.

Google searches are much more forgiving. And tend to show up any thread that FR has going on the topic if you type in "(title) Free Republic"