Even the trick of prefixing the Search term with a space doesn't work any more for me. Instead I use Item site: http://ttr250.activeboard.com where you replace the word "Item" with what you want to search on. Far from ideal!
Also, I haven't received email notifications for several months now. This is where you ask to be emailed a notification when someone responds to a thread you are watching.
Has anyone else had any such emails recently?
I think its a general Sparklit issue across their forums and they are probably not willing to invest programmer time to sort it out on what is now an outdated technology - sadly
But we have so much invested in the forum that I can't begin to think about a change to another platform.