Searching for specific terms on this forum

[SNAFU_MP]

I was trying to find out about an issue I have by searching for "final game situation". I got like 1500 results and it said the terms final and game were ignored. I tried the same thing with "+final +game +situation" and got the same result.

What can I do to find what I'm looking for?

[Meeplelowda]

I was trying to find out about an issue I have by searching for "final game situation". I got like 1500 results and it said the terms final and game were ignored. I tried the same thing with "+final +game +situation" and got the same result.

What can I do to find what I'm looking for?

When it tells you certain words were ignored, it means they are "stop words" for the BGA search. Using + doesn't yield a different result because those words are ignored completely. Many search systems have "stop words" that are ignored because they would produce too many hits, tax the database, and/or not yield narrow enough results. Common stop words are things like articles, prepositions, and pronouns. But stop words can be specific to the context of a particular site:

For example, if your product database is comprised of all products related to scented candles, you can think about adding “scented” and “candle” as stop words as it would return every product on your site when searching.

Other BGA stop words include "player," "ELO," and "arena."

Also, you can't search only for specific phrases by enclosing them in quotes. The search function on BGA is fairly rudimentary in that regard.

[SNAFU_MP]

Good to know, thank you so much!

So, what can I do to find answers to my question?

[babycorns]

If your issue with final game situation is that you don't get to see it after the game has ended because the button is missing, there's a confirmed bug report here: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=72836 There's also a workaround on desktop to go to inspect mode and look for the link which is being hidden by css.

Normally I would suggest using a search engine to search a specific site with limited search capabilities, but the forums require you to be logged in, so that won't work.

[tbhp]

The final game situation is only available for 24 hours. I think that's intended, because it takes much more storage space to save a game situation as a block than to just save the moves of a game.

[FrankJones]

Note that for any game in your history (which should be all of them), you can view he replay and then click "go to end of game(fast)" to view the end-game situation.