No search on Ubuntu Forums for new UbuntuOne users?

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I went to search on Ubuntu Forums without logging in and got the message “Searching has been disabled.” on the search results page.

So I went to log in (for the first time) and received a message “Your username cannot be shorter than 1000 characters.” I assume this is a shortcut to disable new user registration on the forums.

I can use 3rd party search engines by restricting search to site:ubuntuforums.org.

Should new users expect/be guided to use external search engines for searching issues on ubuntuforums.org?

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I am not completely sure of the answer but we always recommended users to use google most of the time it does a better job then the forums search ever did and yes some measures were put in place to stop new registration until the forum is properly archived.

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I posted this in another thread.

I find Google works well. You just have to specify site:ubuntuforums.org and then the query words.

site:ubuntuforums.org Mythtv

I often did not save in my notes, and had to try to find an old post.

site:ubuntuforums.org oldfred Boot-Repair

but searches are finding many old thread, but you can use Google query to restrict dates.

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That works on DuckDuckGo, too, if you don’t want to deal with EvilCorp.

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