Is the search within records Search engine broken ?
If I perform an "All Collections" search using
I get results.
But If I choose a result, say in the census, and then click on the document information to search within the recordset using
The search just hangs with a full page of blank greyed out data forlornly pulsating.
Is it just me, or has somebody been improving the search engine ?
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I think I might have found the cause. It seems that one of the remote AdBlock Filter Lists has recently updated and contains a rule that appears to object to the word 'record'. Attempting to narrow it down.
How bizzarre !. Having disabled and enabled each of the filters lists one at a time to try and discover which one it was, the search still works with all of them enabled. I suppose it could be that the faulty rule has been corrected and updated while I've been working. Crisis over, only 3 hours lost.
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I've never used any sort of ad blocker, so I don't know whether it's possible to tell them not to bother with certain sites, but given that FS doesn't do any sort of advertisement or other things needing to be blocked, I would want to explore the possibility of turning off the blocker for the entire FS domain.
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My simple view is that if I am using a free service that funds itself via advertising, and that is useful to me, it's not really part of the deal to block the ads. I do know many other people don't agree with this. I would in the end always rather pay a little bit for a service that is important to me - that way I am entitled to expect accountability and support (besides no ads).
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@MandyShaw1 , @Julia Szent-Györgyi I don't use the ad blocker for blocking ads per se. The functionality is useful for removing 'annoyances' (remember the paper clip?) and high-volume content that I feel does not provide sufficient benefit to justify the web traffic, and by blocking it I can speed up the page load.
Just as a note for others: some 'blockers' rather than blocking still load everything, but just don't display the item. Obviously this doesn't speed up anything. Anyway, my panic is over, it was no fault of FS or the search engine. If anybody else suddenly discovers that one thing doesn't work while others do, then it might be worth checking the Ad Blocker.
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