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Advanced Search Doesn't Work

For instance...if I put in that I want to see all games played with at least 30 minutes as a primary time control within the past five days...it lists none or starts listing games of that time control from 2013, not any time recently. This isn't the only issue with the page, either. In general, it just doesn't work, is buggy, and is the most useless feature on the site right now. A searchable games database is an absolute necessity so please...can someone work on fixing this or implementing a legitimate games database? As it is now, I'm sure all of us go to another third party site for this feature and it would be great to see Lichess have it's own offering in this department.
Agreed, it's never worked for me.

I'd rather see a useful search function than most of the new features that have come along, nice as they are.

FWIW, my own personal use case would usually be things like "Show me a slice of Caro Kann blitz games by players between 1700 and 1900". And then I'd love to download the PGN of that to look at with other software.
That would be a typical use of it for most, I'm sure. A good games database with a reliable and deep search function really does add a tremendous amount of depth and possibilities for study.
Advanced search used to work fine. Seems like something broke...
I'm assuming that was sarcasm. However, my point was, yes at one point it did work as intended, and now it isn't working. I was confirming what you said, i.e. that there is likely a bug. So file a bug report about it rather than posting in general chess discussion?

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