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After some initial difficulties I got this hack to work in 3.6.8

Had the same problems as many others, the first being finding the area to enable/disable the hack. After a bit of searching I found it.

VBULLETIN OPTIONS > MESSAGE POSTING AND EDITING OPTIONS.

Second to last setting, "check for similar threads" (set to YES)

So I turned the hack on and got the message when posting new thread indicating that it would search for similar threads but it never did. After reading every reply to this hack I followed the advice of others with the same issue. Rebuilding seach index did not solve the issue, but upon reverting jquery from 1.2.6 to 1.1.3.1 (version referenced by the author) the hack works fine.

The only two notable issues are that it suggests some rather old threads and you have to either click in the thread title box or move to the post text box to execute the search query. The latter issue is not really a big deal but I would like to limit the threads retrieved to the last 30 or 60 days. Might be something I can do with my regular search options to help out with this but it would be nice if a future version of the hack had some options to direct or limit the search.

I use fulltext search on my board and have went from 4 letter word minimum to 3 letter to see if it improves on search relevence, but with my size board this could ultimately be too resource hungry.

Overall I do like the hack, and the concept sofar, and it should save on at least some of the same old questions being posted over and over.