604782 Wed Mar 18 12:15:40 -0700 2009 74 40 Technical Help 0 4516930 Later today we will release a series of enhancements to the site. Please note, links below will not work until we launch... * Contextual Recommendations: We are now presenting contextually relevant suggestions of related CHOW & Chowhound content on story, recipe, and Chowhound thread pages on the site. So, if a user is reading a thread or story about cheese, they will be able to easily view additional content about cheese. We hope that this will help users to discover additional content that might interest them. Examples: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/518970 http://www.chow.com/stories/11316 * Auto-Tagging & Tags Pages We have added 5,000 new tag pages to the site, that collect all content related to a given keyword on one page. We are linking to these pages from the contextual recommendations module described above, and also within the body of the text on the story & recipe pages. Examples: http://chow.com/tags/cheese http://chow.com/tags/dungeness+crab * Changes to Search We've moved the site to a new search system, with improved relevance, and cleaner design. The main changes you will notice are: - Advanced search options are now in the right column, rather than in the center where they were before. Functionality is the same. - You will not see the details of board, date and poster on the main "All Results" tab of search, but it is all available under the "Boards" tab. - Text search options such as User:Username and Board:Boardname are no longer available, we will restore them in the next release, in the interim, searching by username in quotes should return all posts for that user. - If you have bookmarked searches, they will no longer work, so you will need to reset them. Examples: http://search.chow.com/search?query=soup+dumplings&advanced=&type=Topic&from_date=10+years+ago&to_date=now&sort_mode=newest&search_boardgroup_id=8&search_board_id=18 We are going to be improving and refining these features over the next several weeks, so please let us know if you have any suggestions or notice problems, or there are tags you'd like to see added to the site. We really hope that you'll enjoy these new features, and that this will help you find what you are looking for and discover additional relevant content you didn't know was on the site. Wed Mar 18 12:15:40 -0700 2009 172147 JustineR 1 4517674 Here's the problem I find with the changes to Places hub search. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/604847 Wed Mar 18 16:03:30 -0700 2009 4516930 10039 Melanie Wong 2 4517764 Thanks for your feedback, we will fix the issues you reported in that thread. Wed Mar 18 16:49:48 -0700 2009 4517674 172147 JustineR 3 4517794 That would be wonderful. Title: search is another one that I use often. Wed Mar 18 17:02:58 -0700 2009 4517764 10039 Melanie Wong 1 4518041 Stuff gets left in the URL if you find a topic through search http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/89445?tag=search_results;results_list Instead of http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/89445 Wed Mar 18 18:50:25 -0700 2009 4516930 10264 rworange 2 4530750 I just discovered this extraneous stuff in a search for someone on the Boston board....it seems the links still work with the "?tag=search" portion - it just looks really awkward. Mon Mar 23 13:34:17 -0700 2009 4518041 10532 LindaWhit 1 4518078 OK, this has slowed the site down to unbearable again with pages taking 5 or minutes to load. if one of the changes was to "will help users to discover additional content that might interest them" work on the site performance not how pretty it looks. I would LOVE to read more on Chow/Chowhound. As it is I am about a month behind reading the SF board. So it is rare that I click on other intersting links I see because it takes TOO LONG for them to load. With this latest change, and the fact that I am a month behind on the only board I read anymore my Chowhound reading will be even more limited. I guess my main Chowhound access will be primarily through the Chow Digest emails. Wed Mar 18 19:06:54 -0700 2009 4516930 10264 rworange 2 4518627 I don't know if that's the cause, but starting yesterday afternoon I also found the site slowed to the point of stopping at moments- pages would time out and not load, like the site was down. Usually a few minutes later things seemed better, but then they would get worse again. I haven't noticed it this morning so hopefully it was just a problem with the initial launch. Thu Mar 19 04:44:06 -0700 2009 4518078 10027 Chris VR 3 4519547 Thanks for your feedback, we are aware of the slowness & stability issues and are working to fix them as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience. Thu Mar 19 11:17:39 -0700 2009 4518627 172147 JustineR 1 4518370 Advanced Search can't find the Places records that were created 5 hours ago. Is there a long delay in updating or is this a bug? Wed Mar 18 21:49:51 -0700 2009 4516930 10039 Melanie Wong 2 4519550 This is a bug, we'll investigate & fix. Thu Mar 19 11:17:56 -0700 2009 4518370 172147 JustineR 1 4519369 There are 4746 topics under the boards link in the cheese tags. They are sorted in an apparently random order. They can only be viewed 15 topics at a time, which means clicking through over 300 pages! They can't be resorted, filtered, or sub-searched. What is your intention here? I It seems pretty completely useless as is. http://www.chow.com/tags/cheese/board?tag=bd;main_body Also, it looks like everything after and including the ? in that url is superfluous. Thu Mar 19 10:03:09 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4520216 I'm sorry if this has been reported elsewhere but I have limited access to the site not being able to search or open posts without refreshing 3-4 times. I was searching Places for Barefoot Coffee Roasters from the San Francisco Place board. There is a duplicate record, I suspect. When I entered "Barefoot Coffee Roasters" There were three pages of results from all of Chow with any of those words. So I used the options specifying just barefoot and I got "Your search for Barefoot did not return any results" http://search.chow.com/search?query=Barefoot++&advanced=1&type=Restaurant&sort_mode=relevance&search_boardgroup_id=1&search_board_id=1 However, if you go back to the SF region board it is pretty clear that it is there http://www.chow.com/places/regions/1?tag=main_menu_places;menu_places A note about putting the options to the side. This is awful if using the a larger text on the browser. As it is any page on this site takes forever to load, now I have slooooowly scroll to the side to get to the options. It would be nice if in future testing someone took a look at these screens using larger text. Lots of people use it. Thu Mar 19 14:24:40 -0700 2009 4516930 10264 rworange 1 4520430 Sigh. Yet another update riddled with problems, including major performance hits and thousands of blank pages and "application error" screens. I tried the new search. I can't see anything but the first page of results. Clicking on the "2" returns me to a blank search page. (And y'all haven't fixed the basic problem with the search functionality that I reported here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/576717 - you can't turn off the unhelpful fuzzy matching. Bummer.) Why can't changes be tested and working BEFORE they're rolled out? Anne P.S. I agree with rworange - the search options are way too far to the right. The "search tips" definitely take up too much space. Thu Mar 19 15:33:34 -0700 2009 4516930 12541 AnneInMpls 1 4520436 Can you please return the advanced search to the top of the page rather than to the right? I need to scroll over to get to the area since I use CH as one of many open panes on my laptop. On my ipod, it's just one more barrior using the device with CH. Thu Mar 19 15:37:36 -0700 2009 4516930 155034 alwayscooking 2 4537262 Thanks for the feedback, and yes we will return the advanced search to the top of the page. Wed Mar 25 11:29:23 -0700 2009 4520436 172147 JustineR 3 4537734 thank you! Wed Mar 25 13:27:39 -0700 2009 4537262 155034 alwayscooking 1 4520495 Is anyone else finding the new search function just about useless? I just tried, for the third time today, to find something I know I posted about. I finally found one post using the Google advanced search. Boolean searches seem not to be working at all. Is it me? Am I doing something wrong? Anyone else having the same problem? Thu Mar 19 15:59:17 -0700 2009 4516930 11407 JoanN 2 4520565 As a techie - I wonder which search engine they recently switched to - does anyone know? Thu Mar 19 16:23:53 -0700 2009 4520495 155034 alwayscooking 2 4521644 I did that too - I searched on the Manhattan board for title:tse, knowing that there was thread with "Tse Yang" in the title, and it didn't come up. Fri Mar 20 04:59:11 -0700 2009 4520495 10985 MMRuth 3 4537279 As noted in the initial post, the previous search helpers like title: user: etc no longer function. but i searched for Tse Yang (without title) on Manhattan board and got the following: http://search.chow.com/search?query=Tse+Yang&advanced=1&type=Topic&from_date=10+years+ago&to_date=now&sort_mode=newest&search_boardgroup_id=8&search_board_id=18 Can you let me know what thread you wanted to come up so we can look into how to improve the relevance? Wed Mar 25 11:34:19 -0700 2009 4521644 172147 JustineR 4 4537300 Thanks - obviously missed that mention in the OP! I did find the post that I was looking for, and look forward to these search helpers working again. Most of the searches that I do - usually to locate specific threads that I know exist - use user: and/or title: to quickly locate the post. The usefulness of the title function also is that there is more likely to be more content about the title search term, rather than just a passing mention of the search term. Wed Mar 25 11:38:14 -0700 2009 4537279 10985 MMRuth 5 4537367 Oh - but this is the specific thread I was looking for: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/565233 Wed Mar 25 11:58:09 -0700 2009 4537300 10985 MMRuth 6 4537385 And here is another example of why I miss the user/title option. I want to reply to: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/606711 I search using Spanish tapas mmruth and get - http://search.chow.com/search?query=spanish+tapas+mmruth&advanced=&type=Topic&from_date=3+year+ago&to_date=now&sort_mode=newest&search_boardgroup_id=10&search_board_id=31 I changed the time frame to 3 years. As you can see, lots of posts to wade through, when I know there are threads with either Spanish or tapas in the tile, to which I have posted. If I then add tortilla and chorizo to the search, on the 2nd page, I find what I'm looking for: http://search.chow.com/search?search_board_id=31&query=spanish%20tapas%20mmruth%20tortilla%20chorizo&sort_mode=newest&advanced=&to_date=now&search_boardgroup_id=10&from_date=3%20year%20ago&type=Topic&page=2&tag=main_body;search_results Wed Mar 25 12:01:32 -0700 2009 4537367 10985 MMRuth 4 4537356 Search is still hit-or-miss. When I click on the RESTAURANTS link under "Filter results" on your search page for Tse Yang, it returns no results. In fact there's been a place record for this restaurants since 2007 ... http://www.chow.com/places/17593 Wed Mar 25 11:53:35 -0700 2009 4537279 10496 squid kun 1 4521245 And the search button is too big and in the wrong place and overstomping some CBS advertising. Safari 4, osx. See attached photo. Thu Mar 19 20:59:36 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4521292 I search the SF board for "chuckles the clone" in quotes. I get "Showing 1 to 9 of 9 results". I'm pretty sure I've posted more than that. When the (abbreviated) search results are displayed, the search box has been zeroed out. So if I want to run the same search over with different parameters or add a term, I need to type the whole thing over again. I'm sure your contractor has told you this has been tested. But it hasn't been. Thu Mar 19 21:25:03 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4521307 Can you please fire the idiot "designer" who keeps producing unreadable grey-on-white text. The snippet text in the search results is in unreadable grey-on-white. If you search the "boards" the word "boards" is glommed on to every single result in stark black. Why not go the other way -- display the actual text the user is looking for in readable, upfront black and present the unnecessary, pointless decoration in a subtle shade of invisible? Thu Mar 19 21:37:17 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4521351 Wrong terms are highlighted in the invisible-grey search result snippets. Search for "I was at Range on Sunday night". http://search.chow.com/search?query=%22I+was+at+Range+on+Sunday+night%22&advanced=1&type=Topic&from_date=10+years+ago&to_date=now&sort_mode=relevance&search_boardgroup_id=1&search_board_id=1 Note that "on", which is in the quoted phrase but probably on some stopword list, is not highlighted. Note that there are other occurrences of "Range" which are highlighted even though they are not in the quoted phrase. Note that the phrase we just searched for is not in the search box. Thu Mar 19 22:14:10 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 2 4537304 The problem of the search phrase not being included in the search box has been fixed. We will fix the issue of the quoted phrase search highlighting terms that are not the exact quoted phrase, and the stopword highlighting too. Wed Mar 25 11:39:27 -0700 2009 4521351 172147 JustineR 1 4521378 The places search is pretty useless right now, not counting errors already mentioned. Some of the freeform info in "what's it like" should be displayed. I learned months ago from updating hundreds of records that this is nice to have as people have an idea what the restaurant is about. Even Google does that for a good reason. Fortunately I had the old search bookmarked and ... thank god ... it still works. PLEASE don't take that away until the new search is fixed. Here's what you have now searching on Berkeley and brunch http://search.chow.com/search?query=brunch+berkeley&advanced=&type=Restaurant&sort_mode=relevance&search_boardgroup_id= Not very informative. Here's what the old search displayed for the same criteria http://www.chow.com/search?search%5Bquery%5D=berkeley+brunch&search%5Bclass_names%5D=Restaurant&search%5Bfrom%5D=10+years+ago&search%5Bto%5D=now&search%5Bsort_mode%5D=relevance&search%5Bboardgroup_id%5D=1&search%5Bboard_id%5D=1&Search.x=45&Search.y=5 While the new design looks cleaner ... because it gives no info, why would users click on every single one of those links to find out more info. I'm thinking of someone on an iphone trying to determine where to eat isnt going to take the time to bounce to the place record and read each one ... and why should they? We get TONS inquiries from visitors on the SF board with repetative questions. Giving the visitor a search that has a nice little summary has been very helpful. It could be one of the features to elevate places above other food sites and draw people to Chow when they want restaurant info. Also, region needs to be displayed as well. Too often search returns restaurants from multiple regions. Someone from Chow mentioned there are changes for Places also planned. I hope you will solicit some user feedback about how people use that part of the system before the new, improved version is delivered. I'm also sure you would have a number of people willing to volunteer for beta testing too. These type of buggy installations seem so unecessary. Thu Mar 19 22:29:27 -0700 2009 4516930 10264 rworange 2 4521532 > These type of buggy installations seem so unnecessary. Totally agreed. I'll bet many of you have seen other sites that do it right: search, listings functions, etc. Which ones do you especially like, and why? Some examples of the best sites out there might help point the CHOW staff in the right direction. Fri Mar 20 02:19:25 -0700 2009 4521378 10496 squid kun 2 4537314 Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. We're aware of the problems with places search, and we're working to fix them. And, there will be changes coming to places in the next few months that will improve this experience, and we will solicit input from users as we put those changes in place. Wed Mar 25 11:42:37 -0700 2009 4521378 172147 JustineR 3 4545761 >>> we will solicit input from users as we put those changes in place. I don't mean to be unpleasant, but Chowhound installations have been so unpleasant for years. If that means the usual installation where Chow decides on a design, and at this point I'm not really sure what is driving some of this stuff, it gets put out untested and only THEN you ask what we think ... that is not what I'm talking about. Somewhere before the specs get approved and passed to the engineers there should be some focus groups from people who use the site and how they use the site. Again, I feel like most, if all the changes are driven by the Chow side of the site and that people at Chow don't understand how the site is used on the Chowhound side. I'm not just talking about heavy users like myself. The forums are a different animal from Chow. They are not as static or limited. It would be nice to get some input from users on design upgrades, selecting a few people from all categories ... from newbie to old timer ... from occasional user to daily readers. I'm quite frankly cringing about what changes are planned for places. The three things I specifically would like to see are - four price categories such as inexpensive, moderate, pricey, expensive ( rather than average which is subject to lots of fluctuation and not easy to figure out) - most recent link first if possible ... LIFO, not FIFO - SOME clear difference between linking a review and linking to use as a gps to indicate address. Search is so screwy that it is currently unusable to me. Maybe it will be fixed, maybe not. Maybe the next installation will cause more problems. If there were actual links only to reports, it would be easier to look up info about a restaurant. Oh heck ... why not... I would also like to see - display 'no' if no credit cards are used or no reservations are taken - some text to tell people the difference between posting their opinons on a place and posting general info about the place. If the first, they should be directed to Chowhound - Text to tell businesses this is not the place to promote their business. Put it up front. Who reads the guidlines for the most part. - some other fields such as alcohol served ... none, beer, wine, full bar ... and a few other based on questions asked over and over ... and over on the boards. Sat Mar 28 00:41:04 -0700 2009 4537314 10264 rworange 1 4521409 Try this link for the "chowhound" tag, which popped up next to a Places record for an Indian restaurant in San Jose. http://www.chow.com/tags/chowhound How is that providing more information about "chowhound" or anything? Please re-examine your algorithms for selecting those links. Thu Mar 19 22:56:14 -0700 2009 4516930 10039 Melanie Wong 2 4521512 There's also a plural "chowhounds" tag page which has totally irrelevant links. http://www.chow.com/tags/chowhounds Fri Mar 20 01:12:30 -0700 2009 4521409 10039 Melanie Wong 1 4521418 Why is time not considered an element of "relevance"? Sorting search results by relevance should take some account of the age of posts. This is the restaurant business. You're only as good as your last review. Searching for "brunch berkeley" sorted by relevance shouldn't turn up an eight-year-old post at position three. (And nevermind that that number three result is about a restaurant which is not in berkeley and not about brunch at all). http://search.chow.com/search?query=brunch%20berkeley&tag=search_results;search_nav&sort_mode=relevance&advanced=&search_boardgroup_id=&type=Topic&page=52 Thu Mar 19 23:03:18 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 2 4558707 FA Right! We've always had issues with really ancient, stale topics being bumped and with the new search 'engine' it seems to be getting worse. Wed Apr 01 14:48:29 -0700 2009 4521418 23712 DiveFan 1 4521442 I don't get it at all. Is this "tags" thing leftover from some let's-be-like-facebook management directive checklist from two or three years back? What problem is it trying to solve? "Step 3" gets a tag but not steps 1 and 2? http://www.chow.com/tags/step+3 "scurvy"? "Kiss on the lips" but not "sex on the beach" even though they appear next to each other in the one actually germane post? http://www.chow.com/tags/kiss+on+the+lips Thu Mar 19 23:20:59 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4525514 This new search engine is really haywire. It's returning results that have NONE of the desired search terms. Could I suggest that instead of wasting my time looking at pages that do not have the desired information, the results page should say that there are no matches but these xxx pages may be of interest? That would tell me to refine my search terms to do a new search or look at the suggested pages. The difference is that it is then my choice, rather than users trusting this site and then having it steer us wrong. Broken trust is hard to regain. Sat Mar 21 12:46:25 -0700 2009 4516930 10039 Melanie Wong 1 4525616 OR is provided but not NOT ??? That pretty much guarantees uselessness. Sat Mar 21 13:46:28 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4525632 Where are the "Contextual Recommendations" on this page? http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/518970 Sat Mar 21 13:53:52 -0700 2009 4516930 25310 Chuckles the Clone 2 4536887 Are there contextual recs on any message board pages? I'm not seeing any. Wed Mar 25 09:48:37 -0700 2009 4525632 10039 Melanie Wong 3 4537322 They are not there yet because of the performance/stability issues we were experiencing. We will be adding them as soon as those issues are resolved. Wed Mar 25 11:43:55 -0700 2009 4536887 172147 JustineR 4 4580423 JustineR, we haven't heard a peep out of you for two weeks. Any updates to report? Wed Apr 08 23:05:04 -0700 2009 4537322 10039 Melanie Wong 5 4623346 The engineering team's first priority the past several weeks has been to address the site stability problems we were experiencing, and they have made good progress with that. They have also been fixing many of the bugs noted in this this thread, and those are slated for a release next week. I will itemize what those fixes are early next week and post an update. Thanks for your continued feedback. Thu Apr 23 16:35:26 -0700 2009 4580423 172147 JustineR 6 4623471 Thank you, would be good to see the list of fixes, I'll watch for it. Thu Apr 23 17:17:44 -0700 2009 4623346 10039 Melanie Wong 6 4624094 Appreciate the update, Justine. Looking forward to checking out the new release. Thu Apr 23 22:54:55 -0700 2009 4623346 10496 squid kun 1 4536878 I just tried searching for the Place record for Orchard Farms, http://www.chow.com/places/47934 The search engine can't find it if I use Orchard Farm without the ending "s" as the search term. Wed Mar 25 09:47:03 -0700 2009 4516930 10039 Melanie Wong 2 4537325 We will fix that. Thanks. Wed Mar 25 11:44:21 -0700 2009 4536878 172147 JustineR 2 4537331 i am seeing the Orchard farm/orchard farms search working- returning the correct result as the first result on both searches. Can you let me know what exact path you are following so we can replicate the issue? Wed Mar 25 11:45:58 -0700 2009 4536878 172147 JustineR 3 4537377 I've just tried it again, and the problem may not be the "s". Searching from the Places hub for the SF Bay Area, http://www.chow.com/places/regions/1 , neither spelling pops up. But clicking the "search" box again on the results page will pop it up. Then searching from the SF Bay Area message board index, my recent post on Orchard Farms does not show up. But that might be related to the long lag time before new content is indexed or whatever is causing that lag. Wed Mar 25 12:00:14 -0700 2009 4537331 10039 Melanie Wong 4 4537547 - Yes, the places region searches are broken, engineers are working on fixing those now. - Posts are supposed to be indexed every 5 minutes, so I'm not sure why that post is not showing up. We'll test this further to ensure that it's working as it should. Wed Mar 25 12:35:57 -0700 2009 4537377 172147 JustineR 5 4537652 Here's my post about the lag. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/606462#4535553 Now I'm using "Picazo" as a test search term. it's a new restaurant in Sonoma that we just started talking about yesterday. A Place record and thread started yesterday and I'm not able to find either with the search engine. Wed Mar 25 13:04:27 -0700 2009 4537547 10039 Melanie Wong 6 4542790 "Picazo" in Sonoma has shown up in search now. Two-day lag. Thu Mar 26 23:13:11 -0700 2009 4537652 10039 Melanie Wong 5 4593608 Places records have been indexing within an hour. However, tonight they've not been updated on the SF hub for more than 3 hours. Is it turned off "overnight"? Tue Apr 14 00:41:26 -0700 2009 4537547 10039 Melanie Wong 1 4546886 I don't know what the deal is, but not only is search badly broken, but you've done something so that Google can't find stuff either. Compare: http://www.chow.com/places/4203 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22asian+pearl%22+site%3Achowhound.com&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq= Sat Mar 28 14:12:44 -0700 2009 4516930 11369 Robert Lauriston 2 4547196 beta.chowhound.com and chowhound.chow.com both point to the same ip address; so technically, that first result in the google search is the same page as your first link. If you replace "chowhound.com" with "chow.com" in your google search url, the right thing happens. Though that shouldn't be necessary. Maybe putting all the place info under places.chowhound.com and creating a CNAME record for places.chow.com pointing to it would make this less hopelessly nuts? Of course, CNET are the people who brought us the ".com.com" abomination, so spiffy use of DNS may not be likely .... :) Sat Mar 28 17:00:09 -0700 2009 4546886 25310 Chuckles the Clone 1 4548332 Still having issues with the search - when doing an advanced search with the newest option set it does not seem to be picking up the newest entries - for instance doing a search on the word kosher does not pull the newest sntry - Sun Mar 29 08:42:19 -0700 2009 4516930 11622 weinstein5 1 4551052 Search is really buggy. When you do a search and get back pages of results, you can only view the first page. If you click on 2 or Next, you get a "zero results" page. Also, the search results run right off the width of the page (see attached screenshot). When will these issues be addressed? Mon Mar 30 09:47:57 -0700 2009 4516930 13987 cinda 1 4558744 Another minor bug showing lack of QA - topic summaries in search results show 'Last Updated By' followed by a list of ALL posters. Duh. The only 'contextual' recommendations that I've seen that look OK are in the Recipes area - when viewing one of my salsa recipes the Related column looks quite relevant. Wed Apr 01 14:56:51 -0700 2009 4516930 23712 DiveFan 2 4559142 Edit on this topic isn't working for me, so..... I'll add that I REALLY, REALLY miss being able to search by title only e.g. title:something What the Heck were the so-called designers thinking? Wed Apr 01 16:58:42 -0700 2009 4558744 23712 DiveFan 1 4565366 Just wanted to add my howls of frustration. Once more, Chow has "improved" the site by making it unusable. Fri Apr 03 13:40:21 -0700 2009 4516930 10159 Ruth Lafler 1 4570320 Advanced Search seems to be broken again - when doing an advanced search sorting by newest the data eems to be 24 hours old - Sun Apr 05 19:40:52 -0700 2009 4516930 11622 weinstein5 2 4596691 10 days later and still problems with search not refreshing properly - any status on fixing this? Tue Apr 14 20:25:44 -0700 2009 4570320 11622 weinstein5 3 4623312 Are you seeing this problem intermittently or consistently? I have not been able to replicate it-- I am finding things appearing after 5 minutes, which is what should be happening. can you give me an example of something that is not refreshing and i will investigate? Thanks. Thu Apr 23 16:20:21 -0700 2009 4596691 172147 JustineR 4 4623412 It does seem to be working now - I noticed tis two days ago but wante dto give it a day or two - bascally the behavior was doing a search say on the word 'kosher' it would fetch the results and when sorted newest first the records would be any where form a few hours old to days - Thu Apr 23 16:59:22 -0700 2009 4623312 11622 weinstein5 1 4721028 I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if this is not yet a feature but is there a way to see the recipes I've posted under MyChow? Thanks!! Thu May 28 00:15:38 -0700 2009 4516930 211949 Demandrea 2 4721246 Demandrea, do you mean recipes you've posted on the Member Recipes board? If so, yes, there's a way to see all the recipes you've put on the that board - click on MyChow, then click on Favorites. They should be saved at the very top in a section called "My Recipes". Thu May 28 05:46:26 -0700 2009 4721028 10532 LindaWhit 3 4721881 Awesome! Thanks! Thu May 28 09:15:49 -0700 2009 4721246 211949 Demandrea 4 4724465 Great Dalek cake, BTW! Fri May 29 06:01:36 -0700 2009 4721881 10027 Chris VR 5 4724529 I had to go look at that - that is just BRILLIANT, Demandrea! Fri May 29 06:26:04 -0700 2009 4724465 10532 LindaWhit 6 4953976 Hi- I just saw the compliments on the Dalek Cake- THANK YOU!! Mon Aug 17 14:52:10 -0700 2009 4724529 211949 Demandrea 1 5108642 I did sort of a back entry search today for a restaurant, rather than opening Restaurants & Bars. This search field is basic: It has a place to enter a name and then a location entry place. I put in mexican and 06511and it did nothing. I entered new haven and same thing. Same for new haven, CT. I went to Restaurants & Bars search format and it immediately popped up many mexican restaurants, but Baja's Mexican Restaurant wasn't there. It's in Orange, a few feet from New Haven, CT. It's been there for years. It also won't search by zip code. I thought it was supposed to? Fri Oct 16 12:50:29 -0700 2009 4516930 137946 Scargod 2 5108672 We're highlighting this bug in the Restaurants & Bars search format here, http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/659508 Fri Oct 16 12:59:04 -0700 2009 5108642 10039 Melanie Wong