The suggestions are supposed to be restricted to threads from the past year, though I'm not sure if that's the date of the first post, the latest reply, or another date entirely. What I am sure of is that it has never worked as intended, with it returning only results over one year old for the first several months. Hopefully that will be addressed by the new API in the forum overhaul, but the feature's accuracy and future are to be seen.
John
On this thread.
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6130_102-0.html?messageID=3363862&tag=forums06;posts#3363862
As it appears;
http://glenburniemd.net/CNET/morediscussion.jpg
I clicked on "End of America as a Space Faring Nation" at link below.
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6130_102-0.html?threadID=348401
Using Firefox, user adjusted to allow increased timeout beyond default value for loading a page.
http://www.glenburniemd.net/CNET/FirefoxTimeoutIncreased.jpg
After several tries it loads and turns out recent as July 2009 instead of years older as expected for causing problem.
Is there a date lookback limit on "More Discussions"? If not, maybe should be called "Old Discussions"? Is it really necessary or serve a purpose? First time I've even tried to access a thread from there myself.
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