Every time I try to search for something on the forum, instead of performing the search, it says I have to wait 20 seconds between searches. So I wait 30 seconds, try again, and it does the same thing. I wait another 30 seconds, try again, and I get the same message.

Anybody know what is going on?

Plainplane :)

It's working just fine for me. Perhaps it's something to do with your computer trying to connect twice?

Just use google for the time being (with site:forum.team17.com)

Just use google for the time being (with site:forum.team17.com)

Does that work? I thought unregistered users couldn't view most of the forum anymore.

Every time I try to search for something on the forum, instead of performing the search, it says I have to wait 20 seconds between searches. So I wait 30 seconds, try again, and it does the same thing. I wait another 30 seconds, try again, and I get the same message.

Anybody know what is going on?

Plainplane :)

Empty your browser's cache, that might help. Sounds like it's caching the error page and being stupid

Does that work? I thought unregistered users couldn't view most of the forum anymore.

I think the Googlebot has access to the archives, or can somehow bypass that problem, as I just did this search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aforum.team17.com+ds+disconnects&btnG=Search and got this thread: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?p=629822 which was posted in not long before I made this post and was created on the 27th of Dec this year.

I was able to find what I was looking for using the Google method. Thanks for the information.

Plainplane :)

I think the Googlebot has access to the archives, or can somehow bypass that problem, as I just did this search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aforum.team17.com+ds+disconnects&btnG=Search and got this thread: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?p=629822 which was posted in not long before I made this post and was created on the 27th of Dec this year.

Does that mean the googlebot can see the hidden forums?

No. googlebot can see anything as long as another site, that googlebot has already crawled, has a link to the hidden forum.

if there are no links to the hidden forum at all, even in the forum's host database, then it will remain.. hidden.

Does that mean the googlebot can see the hidden forums?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aforum.team17.com+infraction+for&btnG=Google+Search

No, it cannot. Otherwise a few hundred results would have been returned.

Most forum software can detect and grant special permissions for search engine bots, so vBulletin is probably set up to let them crawl through. They also won't see hidden forums (unless specifically allowed) since, even if they find a link, they'll run into the same error message a regular member would and reach a deadend.

Just use google for the time being (with site:forum.team17.com)

thanks, saw that mentioned on armageddon games but it was later lost... theres no search function for "normal" members there but recently i have gotten search privileges.

As a brief aside, Plainplane, have you considered saving yourself some time by putting "Plainplane :)" in your signature? Typing it out each time must be a) tiresome, and b) annoying the Hell out of me.

Seconded.

Maybe it has something to do with you tapping the search button more than once. IE: Double Clicking.

Maybe it has something to do with you tapping the search button more than once. IE: Double Clicking.If I was double clicking, I wouldn't have posted because that would have been an obvious reason.

:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:Plainplane didn't post his sig bit!!!!!!!!

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

do you use a macro for your signature plainplane? like, press a single key and it automatically types it out?

do you use a macro for your signature plainplane? like, press a single key and it automatically types it out?

Would you go through the hassle of doing that? And having the macro program active all the time you post? Really, typing Painplane :) at the end of each post takes around 1 minute of your time every year, downloading, installing and setting up a macro to do so takes more.

Yakuza :)

No it doesn't.

Plainplane :) Muzer :)

not if you have a keyboard with keys specificly for use with macro programs... or you could even asign a F key to it... and have the macro program run ALL the time :P

Nope, no macro.