I was trying to look up an old post of mine, from a few months back. Then I noticed that the "Find all posts by" function only shows the last 200 posts by a user; I also tried using the Search function, but that pulled up the 200 latest threads I've posted to (which means I get results from further back, but still a limited number of posts). I haven't been able to get round this - is there a way? I would like to be able to read my older posts, because I find it rather (self-indulgently, but still) interesting to track my own progress that way. Since I haven't started anywhere near 200 threads I can still find all the threads I've started, but finding all my posts would be useful.

Or would that put too much of a strain on the servers, when users have more than 200 posts?

[DocJohn]

Unfortunately, to conserve server resources, we have to set a maximum query number. No matter what number we set there (unless it was extraordinarily large), you'd still be limited to that number.

Alternatively, you can use Google to search on your username and use a site specifier like this in the query:

site:forums.psychcentral.com

[FooZe]

Some strategies that I've used to find older posts with our local Advanced Search include:

1. Specifying that the results should be sorted (by date) "In ascending order". That means I'll see the 200 oldest hits instead of the 200 newest.

2. Specifying a date range such as "3 months ago (and older)" or "6 months ago (and newer".

3. Requesting results from one forum at a time.

Thanks! It does make sense that this is done to save server resources. I did the Google search thing, but hadn't looked closely enough at Advanced search