I pressed the search function button at the top of the forum. I filled in a simple word and also filled in my user name in the search by user, and selected the forum I wanted to search. It could not find anything, even though I was looking at a thread where I had posted and I included the cut and paste of the word.
I thought maybe it doesn't search by my publicly displayed name but by my login name. So I made all the search parameters the same except that. No success.
So I did a search for that single word without a Search by User specified. (As if, maybe it is an either/or search.) Again no success.
Edit: I tried this specific search again (keyword* without user name) and it does find some threads, so perhaps I made a mistake on this one.
Likewise, I used keywords like "word AND otherword" (as it states for Advanced Search options) in every combination with both user names--still to no avail. Is it just me?