SouthPark
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Reged: 25/06/2003
Posts: 31
Loc: London/Southampton
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The forum search date range defaults to "newer than one week". I always seem to want to search the entire archive - as do most people, I should think, so I have to rather clunkily select "older than 1 day". Can you set it so it defaults to "all messages" please?
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SouthPark
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Reged: 25/06/2003
Posts: 31
Loc: London/Southampton
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Oh for heaven's sake - "You can't make a search at this time" - search is now COMPLETELY USELESS.
I want to find out if anyone has posted comments about Chipiona, Rota or Cadiz - how long will it take me to do three questions? Too long. So I'll post to the forum instead and piss everyone off because I haven't searched.
Grrr!
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DogWatch
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Reged: 10/09/2004
Posts: 9225
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Ok there is a solution......
Go to google and type into the search window
site:http://www.ybw.com/forums Rota
This instructs google to only search the ybw forums. Obviously Rota can be changed to any of your keywords.
hope this helps
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SouthPark
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Reged: 25/06/2003
Posts: 31
Loc: London/Southampton
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Thank you. I didn't know you could do that.
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paul_lomax
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Reged: 16/05/2001
Posts: 435
Loc: London, England
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It's a bit annoying I know, but we'd prefer to encourage people to be specific in their searches. Searching all forums for a large date range can slow the database and hence the forums down at peak times.
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Paul Lomax
Internet Technology Manager
IPC Country and Leisure Media
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SouthPark
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Reged: 25/06/2003
Posts: 31
Loc: London/Southampton
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It's not "a bit" annoying, believe me!
You either want to provide a useful search facility or you don't. Currently it is not useful.
Sounds like you need someone to configure your servers so that search load is separated from browsing load, or to cap the load introduced by searches at any point in time. Crippling the user experience to mask underlying load-balancing problems is a very poor solution.
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paul_lomax
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Reged: 16/05/2001
Posts: 435
Loc: London, England
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Quote:
Sounds like you need someone to configure your servers so that search load is separated from browsing load, or to cap the load introduced by searches at any point in time. Crippling the user experience to mask underlying load-balancing problems is a very poor solution.
'configuring your server' would be a euphamism for 'rewriting the software' i'm afraid.
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Paul Lomax
Internet Technology Manager
IPC Country and Leisure Media
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