05-12-2002 01:34									#1
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Why can it search for three letter words?

AND is not the only three letter word in english.

Some time ago I want to find a thread about some music

'mp3' is not allowed in the search

Today I wanted to find posts about the Red Front scenario

'red' is not allowed in the search

	05-12-2002 01:38									#2
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Edit. Stupid comment.

	05-12-2002 01:56									#3
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Searches are very server intesive, so the functionality was reduced due to the recent loads. I believe wild card searches were turned off; it used to be that you could use an * to search for 3 lettered words.

	05-12-2002 02:03									#4
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ok, so they are server intensive.

but they tremedously increase the quality of the forums. How much more noise would there be if all the subjects would repeat themselves, etc.?

I think search is more important then most other features I can think of.

And I couldnt find anything with 'mp3' nor 'red'. very frustrating.

	05-12-2002 03:30									#5
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yes, that's pretty annoying. it wouldn't let me search for "golden age"

	05-12-2002 05:10									#6
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Still, just a handful of posters conducting searches simultaneously can bring down the entire server, and that is much worse than disabling searches that include small words.

	09-12-2002 02:21									#7
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It seems to me that searching for words in thread titles is in vain. It never gives me any search results.

	09-12-2002 03:08									#8
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Poor poly server. Soon we will be back to text only pages to save bandwidth and strain

	09-12-2002 03:55									#9
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Images aren't what's slowing it down, unless you count looking up everyone's avatar when they post...

The problems is the CPUs on the server are weak.

	09-12-2002 09:48									#10
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or the server is down, it was just down for a bit tonite

	09-12-2002 14:25									#11
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Yeah, that was a pretty bad crash tonight.

Kept getting what looked like a generic error page.

	09-12-2002 14:48									#12
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We don won no stinkin generic errors here, no way!

	09-12-2002 15:16									#13
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The best search feature currently available is posting a thread asking if anyone knows where the thread you are looking for is.

	09-12-2002 16:10									#14
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Yeah, that's a manual search

	09-12-2002 22:10									#15
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If you have a thread in mind you can often remember who started the thread you want. The only searches I have done have been for threads started by user x.....these seem to work well.

	10-12-2002 19:44									#16
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how do I search for a sentence or an exact phrase? in some other search engines you can use "...." but that doesn't seem to work here