I upgrade the server with Sphinx - so the the site now supports full text search, you can find posts with ESS / SQL / LET / GET - you know the 4 character limit has been lifted.

However the site re-indexes every 15 minutes so some active terms may take a while to update.

enjoy.

As of now, I am getting:

"There have been 0 entries in the last 24 hours"

after clicking "Today's activity".

Extending the period to "last week" returns 139 entries, with post #5 in this thread:

http://fmforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/75261-bulk-adding-new-child-records/page__pid__356436#entry356436

being the last one.

According to:

http://www.fmforums.com/recent

there have been 4 posts more recent than that.

it's an issue with the Sphinx index - looking in to it.

It seems to be working now.

BTW, you have made me quite puzzled by moving my post in here. At first I though it has disappeared. Now I see it's been raised to prophetical status... :

EDIT:

Spoke too soon: this entire thread is not listed under recent activity.

I merged the posts as they were about the same issue - sorry for confusing you.

I am still trying to dial in the settings to make things mesh properly.

The sphinx server runs a cron task at 4am does a full reindex of the site - then traditionally every 15 minutes deltas are performed.

I have modified that to every 7 minutes. to see how that works for the day.

I am afraid this is not working at all. I am getting various results at random. Right now, I see that "There have been 0 entries in the last [anything]". Earlier, I saw two adjacent entries with nothing in between them - but I know for certain that there were two posts in the interim (these appear on the Forums page).

Sorry - been working on it - had to drop the index and rebuilding it.

Sorry - didn't see your "Men at work" sign...

I see the sign is gone - but I don't think this is working properly yet. These two screenshots were taken a couple of seconds apart. Note that each has some content that is NOT listed in the other one.