There have been at least 6 previous posts regarding the subject of the lack of functionality available in the forums here. (I'm not sure if there are more, as the search functionality is critically impaired). The most recent post I was able to find that contained any indication of official notice was <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5408768/" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/permalink/5408768/</a>, posted in Bug Reports & Technical Issues over a year ago. In that post, the author presented the case regarding forum-search usability politely, eloquently, and clearly in layman's terms, and as far as I can determine, the analysis advanced there is still accurate over a year later: nothing seems to have changed. As a professional database administrator and web developer, I am appalled at this state of affairs for the following reasons: Users have been requesting improved forum search functionality for over 4 years. It's been over 320 days since the last official notice that I can find was taken of users' issues with forum search functionality. There are under 6,790,000 posts. All of the forum posts have a permalink feature that clearly identifies a unique index for each post. It would take a very simply coded screen-scraping algorithm, limited to executing one permalink page-load request every 2 seconds, under 160 days to fully index that many posts in an independent database. It would take less than 8 hours to assemble a web-app, leveraging AJAX and JSON to seamlessly replace the existing search "feature", that would search the resulting database (with at worst equivalent-to-current matching capabilities) and return the permalink indices for any matching posts on the existing Roll20 forums ordered by descending index, at a cost of under a penny a day to maintain. I can only speculate that any associated development time and/or costs would be at worst slightly reduced by having developer access to the system infrastructure, codebase, database(s), and servers that already run the forums. Inasmuch as enough time, since official notice of the complaint was registered, has passed to twice-over deploy an independently-operating solution at negligible cost, I felt that a more technically-focused analysis of this technical issue might be warranted. Please note that, in compliance with proper web-service nettiquete (and several possible interpretations of the Terms of Service), I would never build and deploy such a system myself in the absence of authorization to do so, and I would discourage others from doing so as well; I merely cite this information to provide a (fairly pessimistic) appraisal of a nearly-worst-case method of addressing the repeated requests for forum search improvements in order to contrast it with the absence heretofore of even any indication of any such forthcoming action.