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#1 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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So, technically it does search, but it doesn't search anything useful - as a bunch of random examples, try any of these terms individually: nothing, respawn, flight, pokemon, halo, uncharted, xbox, ps3, ps4, pc and you should get results for each.

What it searches is thread titles for pages within the https://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/%topicID%/%topicname% URL format using the bing custom search tool (customsearch.ai) - that URL format is no longer used and the format simply re-directs to the current URL format pages now though, using the topicID only to load up the normal URL for the page. As a result, only old threads can actually be picked up in the search, and even then a very incomplete set of search results is returned, rendering it rather useless.

That said, it has been like that for a long time and as much as I'd like a functioning forum search like the old site had, it clearly isn't a priority as I don't think it's ever worked properly (though at least it does search the forums in a sense, at one point it didn't even do that) on this version of the site.

E.g. old format for this thread (everything after the 33595121 ID is optional though): https://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/33595121/forum-search-bar-does-nothing - of course all it's doing is picking the ID from the URL and redirecting to here though.

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#2 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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The ranks/points were discontinued (hence "legacy" points) with the site re-write years ago now, they're preserved on the trophies page of profiles but I don't believe there's any way to gain points/levels any more as the functionality was never ported over to the new site (and it'd probably be a significant amount of work to do so even if they did want to).

I don't recall the names or point requirements for levels at this point. It's possible an old thread may still exist somewhere with that sort of information in it, but it could take quite a bit of digging to find at this point and probably isn't worth the effort considering the system has long been defunct.

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#3 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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If you're still having this issue, how are you searching?

If it's via the reviews page search then that searches on the review release date and only shows for the platforms tagged on the review (for AC3 there are 2 separate reviews for X360 and WiiU, none for PC), the actual game release tags do seem to be complete and AC3 does show when I search it under PC via the 'new-games' search page too.

Example PC game search filter

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#4 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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Yeah, looks like The Quarry (2019), ID (5000-)502836 and The Quarry (2022), ID (5000-)560692 are both using the same site detail URL and the older one is the one whose details get loaded, effectively making the newer game's main page inaccessible as a result.
I'm not sure if there's still an easy way to access game pages via the ID within a URL, but the API does confirm that both exist in the back-end at least.

Staff will probably need to update the site detail URL(s) so that both pages can be accessed via separate unique URLs from the front end in order to resolve.


As both have separate IDs and appear in the search you should still be able to write a review for the game in the meantime by going to: https://www.gamespot.com/profile/dagoth_1993/reviews/create

Then searching/selecting the correct 'The Quarry' in the list and then the appropriate release and write your review as normal.

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#5  Edited By RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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They sort of do, though I agree that it'd help a lot if the default schedule page had the multiple common time zones at least rather than just the one.

Anyway, it's started at this point (though it's only the google stadia done so far, with the 1st big one, EA, starting while I'm typing this) but the schedules for US/UK/AU times are below.

PT(/ET): https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2019-schedule-all-press-conferences-dates-start/1100-6465962/ - this page also has PT/ET/BST/AET times but you have to pick them out of the paragraphs rather than a simple list.

BST: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2019-press-conference-schedule-uk-times-and-dat/1100-6467466/ - the 2 that say PT instead of BST are actually BST times still, they've just made an error in the text.

AET: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2019-press-conference-schedule-au-times-and-dat/1100-6467479/

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#6 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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Blatant fake news/troll thread, locked.

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#7 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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This is just a quick test

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#8 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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From what I can tell the only bug (and a relatively harmless one at that) is that the div with class "well article-comments has-pad--max js-load-comments-container hide" is not removing the hide tag at the end of the class when the article comments section is locked (it should be bringing up the little box that tells you that it is locked when you click the view comments button - in much the same way as it brings up the comments as expected when it isn't locked via this same tag being removed from the div class) - locking of comments is normally done by staff when the article comments have gotten out of control and it's not longer considered worthwhile to keep the comments open on the article, in some cases this may be within a few hours after the article is made live on the site if the user response is particularly unsuitable, but the comments are normally open for a least a brief while to allow users to discuss the article - if some particularly bad ones ruin it for others early on then so be it. They may also be closed or even re-opened for other reasons such as whether or not anyone is available to keep an eye on articles likely to have especially volatile/inappropriate comments but it's a staff decision regardless.

I couldn't say what exactly caused these particular articles to be locked as I don't believe even moderators can view the comments in context within the article once it is closed.

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#9 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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It's showing 3 stacks on your profile for me, even though you have 5 (the standard ones) - my own actually says -3 when I look despite also having 5 and angerawr's is showing -1 as well despite also having 5. I recall it being an issue with creating and deleting stacks that caused the number discrepancy originally, and I'm not sure if that number counts the 5 default ones that we all have or not, but I've never had any issues with creating new ones as a result of it.

I'm going by the number on the stacks header of course, the number on right hand side of the actual stacks page seems to be reliably correct, though I'm not sure why they'd be showing different things to begin with if they're meant to represent the same thing.

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#10 RobotOpBuddy  Moderator
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@stereointegrity: Part of a transfer of how it's stored - previously it relied on cookies and the setting data was lost whenever cookies were wiped, so people had to keep changing it, now it's stored in the database against the account instead, so once it's set once it's now always remembered as long as you're logged in.

There is the unfortunate downside of the dark theme no longer being readily available to users that don't have an account or otherwise aren't logged in, but it wouldn't work with it relying on the database anyway and they'd have to re-implement the cookie version as well just to keep that...but having 2 methods side by side could get messy and I imagine they just don't have time for that sort of minor thing at the moment.