Right now when using the client-side (brute-force) search, you just get a dialog "Searching ..." that doesn't really indicate that it's still working, nor how much work it's doing.
It should show more state:
How many posts has it searched?
What date has it worked back to? (Maybe if it's back 3mo and hasn't seen anything yet, I want to just give up.)
Right now when using the client-side (brute-force) search, you just get a dialog "Searching ..." that doesn't really indicate that it's still working, nor how much work it's doing.
It should show more state: