Please check this out. Thank you.
Lots do duplicate posts on this.
Why didn’t you search for them before posting it again?
I can’t speak for Jim Rob but it appears that they just wanted to get things working again and those features will take some extra tweaking to get back. Probably not a good time to mess with the servers for the next few days while they are working and under a high demand.
go to your favorite search engine and enter the title of the thread and add “site:freerepublic.com” to the end. Easy enough workaround.
I’d rather temporarily lose the thread search capability for a while than have FR crash tonight because of it.
I use Google to search by entering the search terms and site limiter in the Google searchbox (omit the “”):
“type general search terms site:freerepublic.com”
The above would search for ‘type’ and ‘general’ and ‘search’ and ‘terms’ on freerepublic.com
Use this:
http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search
put in your search terms and fr for the site, if it’s an article you commented on - put your nickname in too to pinpoint the article
I have never felt that the search function at FR was any good, reasonably easy to use. I think it is an area that could be significantly improved. Just my opinion.