Will you fix the search feature?

[VetLegion]

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

[Paul Hanson]

Edit. Stupid comment.

[ixnay]

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.

[VetLegion]

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.

[Method]

yes, that's pretty annoying. it wouldn't let me search for "golden age"

[Skanky Burns]

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.

[Lars-E]

It seems to me that searching for words in thread titles is in vain. It never gives me any search results.

[Provost Harrison]

Poor poly server. Soon we will be back to text only pages to save bandwidth and strain

[Asher]

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.

[War4ever]

or the server is down, it was just down for a bit tonite

[The Mad Monk]

Yeah, that was a pretty bad crash tonight.

Kept getting what looked like a generic error page.

[spartak]

We don won no stinkin generic errors here, no way!

[Dauphin]

The best search feature currently available is posting a thread asking if anyone knows where the thread you are looking for is.

[Urban Ranger]

Yeah, that's a manual search

[DrSpike]

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.