Searching and Profile Issues

[WanderingWizard]

I'm having two annoying issues on the site. First is that I can't search for anything at all at any given time without the engine giving me the error "Your last search was less than five seconds ago."

The second is that I cannot update my profile page without having it tell me "You can't use HTML tags," even when I have deleted everything on the profile and tried to save the profile completely free of tags or anything else.

I'm sorry if these have already been discussed, but like I said, I can't search.

[AGA]

On the second point, there's a bug in this version of SMF where profile custom text cannot include certain punctuation marks.  Apostrophes at very least.

[WanderingWizard]

Goodness gracious me. Yup, it was using the word "I'm" in the "What can you help with" section. I didn't try to change that because they were already typed that way so I didn't think it could be the problem since that's already the way it was and I didn't want to have to retype everything. That part is fixed, and my profile is updated now.

I still can't search the forums without being told I just did that 5 seconds ago, even if I haven't tried searching for anything for a week. It happens in Chrome and Opera. I'm not willing to try to use Edge (lol).

[Babar]

Unrelated to the original search issue, but I figured I'd mention it here since this thread already existed:
it's really hard to search for single word terms. I don't know what the algorithm prioritises, but for example, if I search for "ports", I get inundated with threads and comments about "reports".

[AGA]

We don't have any control over search, it's core SMF functionality.

However, in this particular case you could do "ports -reports" and it would exclude any results matching reports.