December 4, 2002, 16:34
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Will you fix the search feature?
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
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December 4, 2002, 16:38
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King
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Edit. Stupid comment.
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December 4, 2002, 16:56
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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.
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December 4, 2002, 17:03
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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.
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December 4, 2002, 18:30
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yes, that's pretty annoying. it wouldn't let me search for "golden age" 
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December 4, 2002, 20:10
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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.
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December 8, 2002, 17:21
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Warlord
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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.
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December 8, 2002, 18:08
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Poor poly server. Soon we will be back to text only pages to save bandwidth and strain 
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December 8, 2002, 18:55
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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. 
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December 9, 2002, 00:48
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or the server is down, it was just down for a bit tonite
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December 9, 2002, 05:25
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Yeah, that was a pretty bad crash tonight.
Kept getting what looked like a generic error page.
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December 9, 2002, 05:48
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King
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We don won no stinkin generic errors here, no way!
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December 9, 2002, 06:16
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Deity
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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.
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December 9, 2002, 07:10
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Deity
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Yeah, that's a manual search 
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December 9, 2002, 13:10
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Deity
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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.
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December 10, 2002, 10:44
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Prince
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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
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