Manual search by date/ "new posts"

[ramses]

For whatever reason, when I do an advanced search by entering at time-frame in "Search Previous" with the actual search bar (for keywords) empty or with a few wild-cards (*), it says there are no results. I think it would be a really useful feature to correct this, as well as possibly adding the option for a custom time window.

I don't know how the posts since you were last here option is implemented, but once it is lost, anyone who has been away for a while never gets the chance to read all the messages they missed. I also noticed that it sometimes resets the count when I log in on a computer that hasn't remembered me with cookies.