Why Can't I Search?
 

Okay guys, I'm getting tired of seeing this in my PM box. I've fended off at LEAST fifteen of these today alone.
Please read the Site Announcements Forum.

If you can't seem to find the very top forum on maxima.org, then here's the link for you:
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=268739

It's a simple as that. It says pretty plainly that the search has been disabled when you try to use it. I can't do anything about it. Neither can Jeff, Bill, Chris, Sprint, Clee, mzmtg, Tim, Shing, etc etc etc etc. As soon as the computer geeks that run this place figure things out, then they'll turn it back on.

Please stop filling all of us mods' inboxes with questions about it. Jane said it VERY clearly in the post in the Announcements Forum.

Any idea when donations will be accepted?

Second Tuesday of next week. :)

How many tuesdays are there in a week? :deezo:

I've seen the messages that say that there is a technical problem that is preventing searching.

Whatever it is, is it possible to organize a donation drive to get it fixed? Or is it really more of a bandwidth issue? If so, could that be solved the same way?

There is so much valuable information in the forum that cannot be accessed now.

This is not meant to be a criticism - just an attempt to find a way to get the search feature to work again.

What's the status of search and donation acceptance? There is a whole mess of people whilling but unable to donate.....

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=277721

Merry Christmas.

look2me40, I am glad you can search :)
Still did not answer my question on when the donation acceptance and search will be re-enabled..

Yeah, seriously. I'm still confused too. There's no clear answer, the search says I need permission. To get permissions, I need to donate. To donate, I have to wait because someone is too busy to accept donations. Then some posts say the seach is down.

When will this madness end? Is it too hard to get a clear concise answer out of anyone? :rolleyes:

Lucky you. I can recieve PM's but cannot reply to them.

I am willingly to accept the donations until this site is ready to accept it :p.....j/k

:slap:
https://maxima.org/modules.php?name=donate

Hey guys, new here. I'm a web developer, if you need some help let me know. vBulletin is about the easiest thing in the world to set up. This site seems to have an active, growing community but unfortunatly I can't deal with not having a search on a forum. If you guys fix it please email your member list to notify us. I'll be back when it's working.

Tried donating, and couldn't.... And I "really" need the search option ><
It takes too much time searching every thread on here for answers to my questions. I'm sure people get tired of having the same questions answered over and over... should enable the search option to everyone, it'll help people who do their research, and will stop from having same common threads with the same questions and problems. Thus taking up less space cause of less threads.

You may donate here,
http://forums.maxima.org/subscriptions.php

I am just posting this to get my 15 posts so I can check my private messages again.

i'm up to 10!!!!!

yeah me too...

How do I post message?
 

I'm a new member so please excuse my using this space for this question but I need help and I keep getting the same automatic reply.

How do I post a message?

I read the announcement by Doug about Users under 15 posts are not able to use the Private Messaging Feature or able to create new threads.

you have under 15 posts and therefore cannot post a new thread...

really i didn't know that

sucks *** to be under 15 posts here. cant make a thread for yourself, and you cant search for a similar thread unless you pay $20. kinda makes me wonder if its worth it....

Damn you read all the stickies, I have a free generic search.

theres like 10+ stickies in each section of the forum, sorry for not going through each one and reading them. (this is the only one ive found that talks about the search function in the title)

Here's a link for those of you who missed it in the stickies.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=368622

well what can I say..you win some, you lose some..I think I need about 8 more posts before the famous 15!..gee I feel like it's 1980 when disk space was expensive. LOL j/k eh?

Well.....My very first post. I have a expensive headunit and I guess this is what I need to use it.

I can't search either. :sprint:

Ignore this
 

Just trying to build up some posts too.

I would be a donating member but, the only option I can find to subscribe is via Pay Pal which I do not want to use. A couple of emails asking if there is another option have gone unanswered.

i have no clue

Maybe we should let newbs search only for this topic?

I'm gonna donate once I have my PP back up, is opening new threads only available to donating members only too? Thx.

Now what?
 

I clicked on the above link and got this message :banned: :

thebear, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?

If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

This is my 19th post. :bowdown:

It took me ~ 5000-6000 posts and 4+ years so I could search, it's different for everyone :chuckle:

Althought not as flexible, Google is always available. Just put "site:forums.maxima.org" to limit your search to the Maxima forums site.

Here's an example:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=to...ums.maxima.org

Haha didnt know I could do that...thanks :D

thanks man.

Hello everyone, I just became a member after buying an 00 SE yesterday. However, the inability to search is already becoming very inconvenient. I also own a Z and a 200sx se-r (hence I am their member too) but have not seen this problem anywhere else. May I use the above suggestion and ask the forum owner/moderator that why can't they embed the above search string in the search button "lights site:forums.maxima.org". Using the word lights as an example search string. thank you.

I think they just want us to come up with more questions keeping the forum lively and not allowing to find answers simply by the search metod.