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Accepting the new forum software has been difficult for a lot of the forum members, including myself. I had only been using the previous version for a couple of years, so I can just imagine how some of the veterans feel. The older version just seemed more user friendly. Learning how to accomplish some of the things you could do in the previous version on this new version has been a slow process, for me anyway. The new one takes some getting used to but I'm starting to come around. The biggest frustration I felt after the change was related to doing searches. It was completely different and quite frankly, useless. After a little studying and fiddle farting around, I have finally figured out how to get the results I was getting with the previous version. So, the following are examples of how to do that.
Lets start with the basic search engine. For this example, I typed "speaker stands" in the search box and click on the magnifying glass icon. 500 results on 35 pages.
Not gonna work for me guys, don't know about you. 
Let's filter it a little further. Click the down arrow by the search box and then click on "Advanced Search".
It should bring up a screen that looks like the following.
Lots of useful filters to use here but I've only used a couple to get the results I'm looking for. If you're only interested in finding results where the words were in the title of the thread, click the "Title Only" box to the right of the search word. The new result is a little better, but not by much, 365 results, 25 pages. Still needs more filtering.
This is when I found the setting that was driving me nuts. "View" down in the bottom left hand corner was set to "Default". Default will bring back every response to any one of those threads and you have to go thru page after page just to see new threads. Change it to "Topics" and it will bring back results that are similar to how it used to work, original threads only. 36 results and 3 pages.
And here is a screenshot of the filtered results of the search:
Lets start with the basic search engine. For this example, I typed "speaker stands" in the search box and click on the magnifying glass icon. 500 results on 35 pages.
Not gonna work for me guys, don't know about you. Let's filter it a little further. Click the down arrow by the search box and then click on "Advanced Search".
It should bring up a screen that looks like the following.
Lots of useful filters to use here but I've only used a couple to get the results I'm looking for. If you're only interested in finding results where the words were in the title of the thread, click the "Title Only" box to the right of the search word. The new result is a little better, but not by much, 365 results, 25 pages. Still needs more filtering.
This is when I found the setting that was driving me nuts. "View" down in the bottom left hand corner was set to "Default". Default will bring back every response to any one of those threads and you have to go thru page after page just to see new threads. Change it to "Topics" and it will bring back results that are similar to how it used to work, original threads only. 36 results and 3 pages.
And here is a screenshot of the filtered results of the search:
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