I've been trying to search for threads that discuss MTL (or any other keyword for that matter), but the results I'm getting are quite off-topic. I've also tried to query for ["MTL"], but the search returned nothing. Is this an issue with the search itself or am I doing something wrong?
Try selecting "Search titles only". And search for "machine translation" since "MTL" is too short a term. You can search for "MTL" tags though: https://forum.novelupdates.com/tags/
Not working for me either The closest to relevant results I have got is mtl tag search, https://forum.novelupdates.com/tags/mtl/
If your keyword is too small or too common, the search ignores it for... Some reason, I honestly have no clue why. Even if you put 5 keywords on your search, it can still ignore them all because they're all too short/common... It's really frustrating, but you can't really do anything about it.
yea... the dumb solution that I can think of is to use a crawler like octoparse to get a month worth of comments, then search locally, but NUF prolly won't appreciate that... and it's a lot of time