Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26829117-20160813135302/@comment-26249703-20160813151456

G'ham:

That could be a good idea, or maybe inversely, a "dump" for now-irrelevant threads, or ones that weren't very interesting to start off with :P

Sirebel:

Seems there are limitations to the method I suggested. The url given links to the specific comment that contains the searched keywords. When looking for an article comment, this url is processed and it redirects you to the location of the comment on the page, which isn't the case for board threads.

To test this, copy and paste the url it sends you to and add "?redirect=no" at the end, you will see the message, but no link to its position on the board thread (for example). If you go to your personal contributions and find an article comment that looks kind of like this: "http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Supercar_Classic_Clash/@comment-Average.jo-20160812072615/@comment-RomGuyony-20160813113845" using the redirect=no will link you to (for example). If you don't use the redirect=no method, it will send you to the message's location (translated as http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/Supercar_Classic_Clash#comm-101884), if you do use it, the link at the top will send you to the message the post is a reply to (http://rr3.wikia.com/wiki/Supercar_Classic_Clash#comm-101617).

I don't know enough about coding to tell you what causes it, but since the article comment version sends you to the initial post that the searched post replied to, I expect that the same method isn't applied to board threads and therefore doesn't work. Or because separate groups for boards have been created to organise things, it misses an important step in the method and ends up redirecting you to the forum hub.

I also don't know if this is a know/temporary problem, so my advice for the time being would be to look up the thread you're searching for using the Search function on the Wiki, get the title of the thread and use Google to find its location. Not very intuitive, but it should get you there.