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Jim, I am on a fairly high speed (6mps) connection, and mondya to friday, from about 10am est until about 7 pm at night, the board is just as likely to timeout as it is to load, and just as likely to drop as a post as add it. Often, I am looking at page load times in the range of 1 to 2 minutes. Useless.
Sly, with 700,000 threads and over 13,000,000 posts, the amount of resources required to allow people to search the entire post database is pretty high. Being that it is DB intensive, that is a very heavy load even for a larger cluster of servers. I don't think that vbulletin was created to handle that sort of volume of posts and users.
I don't say "don't use the board as you see productive", but I don't think that the board software or database layout really can scale up to the points you expect it to.
Pornwolf, all the things you list are valid searches, but I can't see anyone making 20 or 30 of those searches a day. I might do one of those searches every few days, but the again, I visit the board a few times a day between things I am working on, so I tend to see more of what is on page 1.
Perhaps more the issue is people making moronic posts and 101 "would you hit it" posts that crowd up page 1. Maybe a section for contests and a section for "would you hit it" would allow people to keep up more, no?
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