It appears that there may be confusion about which box the search term is being entered in.

There is a SEARCH box at the top of the page. This works off an index that isn't reliably up to date, and often things as much as a year old haven't been entered in the index and won't be found.

Adjacent to the "Create a new Thread" link, there's a block where you can enter a thread title, the whole thing or just a word or two from it, in the FILTER box, and click a button labeled "REFRESH." This one does a real-time new scan of all the thread titles and finds any that contain what was entered. To limit what's reported and how long it may take for the search, you can select how far back in time to go. The default selection is one day, with choices of several different number of days, months, or years, or ALL as options. THIS IS THE ONE THAT IS MOST LIKELY TO WORK for recent threads.

If you've set to not show BS threads, you may not find them returned, although I can't say whether or not that's the case. Note that a thread doesn't have to contain BS in the title if an elf moved it from up above based on content or purpose of the thread, so a thread could have started up above and been moved below. If it's been moved, it's still BS even if it doesn't say so.

I probably use the REFRESH most often with about 3 days or a week for time, when a thread drops off the front page before I think up my smartass comment.

It has been noted previously that a setting of "ALL" for the time doesn't necessarily go back all the way. I don't know whether there's a time limit (timeout) or space limit (buffer size?) on number of returns to be reported, but you just about have to use other methods to search for a thread number or post number to get the very oldest atuff - or did the last time we all worked the "how did Mudcat get started question." (The first post ever was number 7 or so IIRC(?).)

John