Forum Problems

Hi, I don’t really know where to ask this, but it is possible to add more languages to the forum? Currently there are only 4 options. Portuguese, English, Japanese and Hebrew (I think).
It is possible to make also available Spanish?

Not for this forum, no.
The next one should have pretty much all languages currently supported by localization for the app and WME though.

Thanks for the reply! So there are plans for a new forum version? That’s great. I hope it comes very soon.

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Not “very soon” but yes, it’s planned :wink:

a lot of people seem to have become retired champions, myself included. Did sometime press the wrong button? :lol:

It was a mistake, sorry for the inconvenience and thank you Vince for finding it and taking care of the setting.

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I can’t use search on the forum anymore. I’ve tried several different browsers and computers, including my phone, and I keep getting this error:

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It happens either with the main search bar at the top, or the “Search this forum” in a subforum or even the Advanced Search.

Thanks

I tried to find your posts and no problem for me using the “advanced search”

That does. But searching for any keyword doesn’t…

Reproduced, I’ll take care of it. thanks!

Same issue here ; I reboot the PC and then, no problem. I think it’s an update from Chrome.

Issue FIXED

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For me in the last weeks the forum search has become quite useless, also only a part of matching posts is shown. Is this a measure to make us wait even keener for the upcoming Lithium forum? :twisted:

Not sure if it’s a Forum problem or a Gmail problem, but lately I’m not receiving all the notifications from the forums I’m subscribed to (new threads).

I’ve chosen to automatically ignore those e-mails and instead I made my default forum “favorite/bookmark” this URL:
https://www.waze.com/forum/ucp.php?i=main&mode=subscribed

This way when you open the Waze forum you automatically see forums and threads you are subscribed to immediately. Once I’m done with them I then go to the forum index to check new/other threads.

It doesn’t solve your issue about getting notified but at least it’s an easy way to quickly access them if you have some free time and want to check the forum.

Good tip.
I’ll do it this way for the moment.
But when there’s not so much free time this can be a little tricky.
I’ll let you know if this issue get fixed or the other way around.
Thanks Vince.

Whenever I log in to the forum with my normal account (HBiede), I get a 500 server error. 100% of the time, every page. Would like to know how to regain access to the forum from my account so I don’t have to use a second account just for the forum.

The 500 server error will be fixed soon , but that haven’t to be a problem with your account, you should try to reset your password.

I gave up on forum search many months ago, thinking it would be fixed “soon”. But I believe we’re approaching a year or more that it has been broken.

For those who don’t search very often (especially not for older posts) here is an example. In October 2016 I wrote this post in the WME Speedhelper topic. The post contained a few less-used words like “stupendously” and “strawman”. Should be easy to find, right?

  • Search for word “stupendously” across entire forum and all time – no results.

  • Search for word “strawman” across entire forum and all time – no results.

  • Go to Speedhelper topic and “Search this topic” for “DwarfLord” – no results.

  • Go to Speedhelper topic and “Search this topic” for “strawman” – no results.

  • Search for all posts by “DwarfLord” across entire forum and all time – 231 pages of results going back to December 2013, including the post in the Speedhelper topic.
    I know many communities are relying more heavily on social-media messaging for day-to-day communication, but the forum is still the one-and-only archive of our formal decision process. It can’t serve that function without proper search capability. Yeah, something’s coming “soon” but… this is just not cricket.

I use Google.com to search the Waze forum, it’s often returning things that the phpBB search doesn’t find anymore.