My situation: The other day I found a post which was amazingly useful & informative. At the time I did rate the post & give comments to that user but I sadly didn't subscribe to the thread & had some real trouble trying to find it again.

The post & thread in question was this: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...pers-or-levers, post #9 by szlamany. I remembered certain terms such as "full stack developer" and "own I/O", and though I couldn't remember exactly, I narrowed down that the post could have been made by one of 3 people (I thought si_the_geek, szlamany or dilettante).

My attempts: I tried searching with the AND keyword, single & double quotes, searching for posts only & popping in each username in turn (both into the username field or the advanced search keywords top field). I tried searching both this site and google for terms such as site:vbforums.com "full stack developer" AND "I/O" AND szlamany.

I went through the notifications, my profile and settings views in the menubar in an attempt to trace my last-given rating or comments too. Lastly, I googled vbulletin search behaviour options & read a few of their forum posts also.

All in all, I've just spent around 3h to find this same post.

My question: To prevent the same situation, how am I (or how is any forum user) in a similar situation, meant to properly use the site's search please. How would you tackle this and how is vbulletin search to be used if you had this scenario & wanted to find that same post in minutes? Thanks