[sgarnett]

Several here seem to be in a "Search Nazi" mood at the moment (ain't sayin' they're wrong), and that is probably off-putting to every newbie who wanders in, tries a default search, and then makes the mistake of posting a question (though we're kinder and gentler about it than c-c).

Why not change the default to forever? It seems to work for c-c (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Sure, it may bring back a flood of info, but that will certainly provide the feedback that there's lot's of info out there to read. Personally, I almost always set it to forever anyway, and narrow my topic by keywords instead of date. I know where to find the threads from last week that I'm interested in; it's the stuff from last year (and so on) that I'm usually searching for.

[Chris 96 WS6]

Vbulletin rocks! You will not be disappointed if you make the switch.

Otherwise I'd say if you can find the .php file that governs the search page you can probably manually change the default search timespan.

I'm no coder but I don't think it would be that hard to find.