Posted 01 May 2015 - 06:19
It's been like that ever since the introduction of the current software in 2013 - the search engine just doesn't display results in chronological order. As you say, when searching on user name and content it appears to pick a thread and display all the posts the user has made in that thread, then move to another, and so on, but it's not consistent in this, and it varies from page to page. Some of us have been pointing this out ad nauseam since the introduction of the software, but have never had any feedback from Mr Grayson and his team, let alone a solution to the problem.
To be fair, the search engine does work a lot better now than it did when first introduced, so credit where credit is due, but there are still some other very frustrating features (eg having to re-enter all the relevant fields every time when making a series of searches) which I feel sure could be easily sorted, but it seems that no-one cares.