The forums are now powered with a better search engine that should return better results since it is more based on natural language instead of just a plain-text search.

Realtime search results​

Now if you start searching something, ElasticSearch will give you 5 proposed results:


Continuing your search with the button itself still leads to the usual big search result page, but those results should be better.
Results that are newer take priority over those that are older, unless the match is so accurate that the only result is old content.

Lookups between dates​

If you however need to find something particular between time A and B, now this also possible with "newer than" and/or "older than":

Suggested content and 'Did you mean...?'​

If you search for something that the search engine considers 'too old', you will receive notifications for newer content within a "Did you mean ...?" frame.

Post Areas​

User profiles now display where the user is most active in terms of threads and replies: