Search function timeframe

Laguna

Okay, I know search has been disabled for a couple of months now and I know it's being worked on, but can someone give an approximate timeframe as to when it should be operational again?

Gordon

2 freckles past a hair.

regi

Not long!

Silverfish

I'm quite enjoying it, it gives a great air of mystery regarding posters.

Chong

Well if regi says it wont be long then maybe it wont, but tbh boards isnt the same without it. It has been gone so bloody long now its turning to joke, nothing takes that bleeding long to fix.

Gordon

WDK wrote:

Well if regi says it wont be long then maybe it wont, but tbh boards isnt the same without it. It has been gone so bloody long now its turning to joke, nothing takes that bleeding long to fix.

Nothing? How about the leaning tower of Pisa? But seriously, why do you want it so badly WDK?

dingding

search me?

Chong

Having the new posts function, plus in my old age you tend to forget where u have posted.

The Muppet

WDK wrote:

Having the new posts function, plus in my old age you tend to forget where u have posted.

Or what you have posted.:D

Chong

Hurrah another smart assed boards comment.

Tar.Aldarion

merc tilt has got to,are you becoming what you detest???
turn to the dark side.

DonkeyStyle \o/

WDK wrote:

Having the new posts function, plus in my old age you tend to forget where u have posted.

Yup, boards is getting labyrinthian these days... it can be next to impossible to find your own posts, especially if you like to wander around.
And threads on some boards can be pushed off the main thread view so quickly onto page 2 that you'd easily forget about them.

Gordon wrote:

But seriously, why do you want it so badly WDK?

I think for a lot of people (myself included) searching is a pretty central part of our boards browsing routene... I like to revisit threads I've posted in... I do it every time I open boards.ie (the My Posts link on the index page).
If I'm interested enough to post in the thread, then I'll be interested to read more of it as the thread grows.
Not having the search function gives me the feeling that I've posted in an interesting thread somewhere, and I'm sure I'd like to read how it turns out, but I can't quite remember where the thread was or what it was about.
I'm tempted to start subscribing to threads, but I've never liked doing that... it seems more messy than a quick search.

hmm did I remember to turn off the stove? oops, no time for that, I've got to wash my hands again!

Tar.Aldarion

use google search, it's quite handy.

DonkeyStyle \o/

It's not usefull for finding a thread I posted in the day before though is it?

Tar.Aldarion

No most likely not, that's where memory search comes in or subscibing to the thread.

:v:

DonkeyStyle \o/

I'm so glad you posted.

Tar.Aldarion

so you won't subscribe to the thread even though it is a solution to your allegedly bad memory?

DonkeyStyle \o/

Not to the best of my recollection.
The details of that incident are foggy.
I'm sorry I can't be more specific than that.

Tar.Aldarion

The person you pay to tell you to put your trousers on in the morning is justified after all.
as for the search timeframe, which this thread is about.
Regi said soon so hold your breath people.

Gordon

Try this: Keep a notepad open and every time you post somewhere - write down the url on the notepad for later use. Failing existance of paper and pen try out a notepad on your computer and copy paste.

Goodshape

Try this :

1. Goto UserCP - Edit Options.
   
2. Set Default Thread Subscription Mode to No Email Notification.
   
3. Post as usual.
   
4. Check UserCP for updates to threads you've posted in.

far handier than 'My Posts' ever was tbh (and you can 'unsubscribe' to threads you'd rather forget about)

Mercury_Tilt

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Moriarty

How many not longs in a week?

unkel

A forum is not a proper forum without search imho. Can't wait for it to be enabled again. I feel like it's been down a very long time (how long, more than a month, surely?) I wonder are subscribers declining to renew over this?

aidan_walsh

Moriarty wrote:

How many not longs in a week?

My crappy math tells me 604,800.

Tar.Aldarion

unkel wrote:

A forum is not a proper forum without search imho. Can't wait for it to be enabled again. I feel like it's been down a very long time (how long, more than a month, surely?) I wonder are subscribers declining to renew over this?

I'd say that's a no.

unkel

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

I'd say that's a no.

My subscription is coming up for renewal this week. Are you taking bets?

Laguna

unkel wrote:

My subscription is coming up for renewal this week. Are you taking bets?

My sub is up soon enough as well, depending on the state of the search function when it's time up, it might influence my resubscription..

Tar.Aldarion

Four Rubals on renewal!

unkel

Laguna wrote:

it might influence my resubscription..

And apparently there are only just over 100 subscribers last time I was told...

Tar.Aldarion

Sometimes they get new ones...like me the other day.....
Plus they are going flat out to get things working for ages now.

Hagar

I don't think we are going to get the search back until someone figures out how 50,818,261 posts can be spread out to form 2,054,852,002 threads? That is at time of this post. By my reckoning that is means there are 2,004,033,741 phantom threads with no posts on the database. That's assuming every other thread has only one post. In reality there must be many more phantom threads. Not good at all.:(

The indices are seriously borked with massive crosslinking/duplication by the look of it.

EDIT: Just noticed Victor's comments in another thread

regi

Gawd.

Not long.