Hey, apologies for aiming this directly at you, as I'm sure you've far better things to concentrate on, but looking at the Vanilla tour I've noticed there are saved searches for... - Recent Visitors - Topic Namewhore (person who created the most topics?) - Command Namewhore (person who created the most comments?)
Now, I could be wrong, but I assume these are special search commands that'll display something different to what the actual search string is, I don't know how to explain it, but hopefully you'll get where I'm coming from, cheers.
Run a search of any kind and then a "save search" form appears on the top-right of your search results. You enter a name for your search and click save. Then your saved searches appear on the left.
For the record:
"Recent Visitors" is a saved search I created that just returns all users sorted by the most "date last visited" in descending order. "Topic Namewhore" is a topic search for my name. "Comment Namewhore" is a comment search for my name.
Ahh I get you, thanks, I've got saved searches activated and have no problems with them (nice extension btw!) I just wasn't sure if there were some fancy commands you could type into the searchbox that'd bring up stuff like a descending list of the highest posters :-)
i saved a search a while back, and noticed that after a short time (a week or so), i no longer have a saved search. is there any particular reason for this that you can think of?
Hmm.... I figured out where mine disappeared to, but your issue sounds different. I had to go to the account preferences, and check the box to show the saved searches. (Kind of un-intuitive to hide them while on the search page, yet show the box to save them...
Do you have a surfing accelerator program that pre-fetches links for you? That could be the guilty party.