AntcuFaalb said:

Mike O said:

So, no official line on this? I have to admit that the rumor sounded too good to be true, but I guess we'll see. I'd comb the thread, but the forum software is still such that I can't go through my old posts and then align to where they are in threads like I can on most other forums, follow a user, search for specific things, etc, and have come to the conclusion that this is just the software we're going to be stuck with :p. I'm just popping back in, I guess. It's late, hopefully this post is semi-coherent.

Nothing definitive yet, unfortunately. :o/

Disappointing, but not unexpected.

AntcuFaalb said:

Mike O said:

Seriously, we're stuck in the Usenet era :p.

You could search Usenet by running grep over the articles you chose to download with your client. Downloading all of the articles in a newsgroup and then running grep on them gave you full newsgroup search. This is how Kibo performed his magic.

I sometimes like to think that Frink is Kibo.

DuracellEnergizer said:

The Googles do nothing!*

*Well, not entirely true -- searching the forums by way of Google is, more-or-less, satisfactory. Still, it is far less than perfect.

You can do it, but it's immensely irritating and still doesn't allow you to track through users and posts like other forums do. I've sort of come to the conclusion that the software around here just sort of is what it is and isn't getting upgraded. Ever ;).