[Spunky]

Thanks for your help but that turned out different than what I was looking for. Has John Robinson completely taken away the search for peoples comments?

I used to be able to use keyword search for articles of a certain subject and then you could also use it to search what certain posters were saying in a thread.

I don't know about you, but I do not like this format.

[Syncro]

Well at the risk of helping you again wrongly try this

In the search area in the right hand side of a page that has it, such as news/activism, type in

keyword:YourKeyword

I did it with keyword:berkeley and got this

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=keyword%3Aberkeley&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=time&SX=47d1f4cb2d69e7c52f8b708ddbea033727347640

From there, you can type in any keyword and find what you want hopefully

On the problem of finding someone's posts on a thread, you can, when on the thread, click on “edit” on the top left

Then click on find (on this page) and then type in the user name of the poster whose posts you want to see.

It will go from one to another until they all are shown to you

I hope this helps, if it doesn't well

Here's a BUMP to this thread!

LOL