Forum Search

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Recently it seems that searching the forums has been disabled, or I lost the permission to do so. Is this something we could have back?

I often keep up with what happens in the forums by using the following link:
https://forums3.armagetronad.net/search.php?search_id=active_topics

I'm not getting the following message on any search page:

Sorry but you are not permitted to use the search system.

[sinewav]

This doesn't solve your problem, but you can also use the RSS feed link to see current activity:

https://forums3.armagetronad.net/app.php/feed

[Goose]

Adding to this, if you're up for the newest news, then the RSS feed of the wiki is also quite useful:
https://wiki.armagetronad.org/api.php?hidebots=1&urlversion=1&days=14&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges

Sometimes, events do not get announced here in the forum.

[Light]

This doesn't solve your problem, but you can also use the RSS feed link to see current activity:

https://forums3.armagetronad.net/app.php/feed

Thanks! Not quite as convenient as the built-in search since I'm always checking in on desktop, but definitely a workaround for now.

Adding to this, if you're up for the newest news, then the RSS feed of the wiki is also quite useful:
https://wiki.armagetronad.org/api.php?hidebots=1&urlversion=1&days=14&limit=50&action=feedrecentchanges

Sometimes, events do not get announced here in the forum.

Yeah, I check in on the wiki changes as well through the Recent Changes page. I guess I could combine these and have one feed now that we're done dealing with bots in there. I appreciate the suggestion.

[Z-Man]

And while this is a 'useful RSS feeds' thread, two more:
https://download.armagetronad.org/feed.xml for builds
https://gitlab.com/armagetronad/armagetronad.atom for all gitlab activity (I hope that one works, I have a token in my actual URL)

Both fluctuate between long periods of nothing, then a torrent of spam I use www.inoreader.com to follow them, they have a phone app that syncs feeds, read status and bookmarks with the website. The service has been mostly stable in quality, except that they pushed filters (for alerts on new articles, or... filtering feeds) from the cheapest paid version to the next expensive one.

Yeah, I'm a bit annoyed by the broken search. That search, and 'unread posts', are my go-to entry points here. AFAIK, search in PHPBB can be quite resource intensive, maybe that and a recent DoS attack using it is the reason? The forums were down a bit yesterday or the day before.