Hmmmm so much for the people that say you don't care Lens... Seems they don't realize that you have a life and sometimes hardware and software takes time to set up...
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He is hiding in Colombia and never paid the settlement $ from our divorce!
Originally posted by CDSmith
Baddog.... I like your idea. Lens, RAISE the bar to those with more than 18k, don't lower it. I could make a fortune paying a couple of employees $15/hr to do searches while charging $5 per search for people :D
nope 10k is good and I like your ideal also
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The three things that come out of the discussion is:
-Obviously, use a separate server to serve the search queries, and only synch that server once a day or every few days. This doesn't show the latest posts, but then again those posts are much easier to find by browsing the forum directly.
-Use the fulltext search hack to get rid of the search tables created by vbulletin.
-Disable the display results by thread, and only display results by posts. This allows you to get rid of all the table joins and makes everything much faster
Some people in that discussion are running boards with 5 million or more posts as well, and they can bring valuable infos to your tech.
Simple solution that will probably get me flamed...
Charge a membership fee for upgraded GFY VIP Membership that allows Search ability and possibly other future features (private areas, marketplace). But other perks don't matter, Search does. Perhaps $15-$25 a year. This will help alleviate the cost of maintaining gfy functionality and hiring more silicon valley techies. GFY would still function normally so people who don't pay won't notice a difference. The Search feature is a vital resource we'll all use everyday so I don't mind paying to make sure it always works. Other forums successfully charge membership fees, GFY should too.
Plus all VIPs could get an exclusive sig / tagline that reads: "GFY VIP MEMBER" (obviously not important). You can give free memberships to people who have earned it (high or quality post counts) or deserve it. I'll be the first one to pay for it.
If you decide to do it, please put all signups under my affliate id.
Post count idea is a bad one since it's zero guarantee of anything, in terms of capturing working webmasters. (Not to say there aren't working webmasters with high post counts - but it's an absolutely unreliable indicator).
Some of us come here primarily to search, not post = business to those who come here to promote their services.
Originally posted by Lensman I have a top engineer from Silicon Valley that his #1 job is to work on GFY.
Are we talking about a script upgrade and a quick reply feature ? :P
Originally posted by rayadp05
I rebooted, deleted temp files, history, cookies and everything...still cannot view the news clip. All I see is that fucking gay ass music video from "Rick Roll". Anyone else have a different link to the news clip?
if I was gonna do it, I'd create 2 databases on the search server ... one with a crontab cleaner or somethin so i only shows the last 500,000 posts (or maybe even less) ...
Then have a "search all" checkbox to determine which one, default unchecked ... faster searches since most people dont need to search 1999's threads heh
Lensman, don't be fooled by those who post crap non-stop like baddog. Board Whores should not be given search privileges over those who post less frequently. Quality posts are much more important than the ridiculous threads which appear here daily with no substance.
Every site worth a damn has a good search feature. GFY is way overdue for neglecting this part of the site.
Originally posted by MicroChick Lensman, don't be fooled by those who post crap non-stop like baddog. Board Whores should not be given search privileges over those who post less frequently. Quality posts are much more important than the ridiculous threads which appear here daily with no substance.
Every site worth a damn has a good search feature. GFY is way overdue for neglecting this part of the site.
Like I said in an earlier thread, Lens knows that the search function is vital to GFY and I wasn't worried that it would be gone forever.
Annoying that it's been down for a week? Sure. But there's worse things in life.
I quoted MicroChick to say the same thing. Lensman isn't stupid and knows that there are alot of "Players" that don't have 15,000 + posts.
Not worried in the least about it. Although I DO like the paid membership Tiers-Free to post and view, pay for the priviledge to search. NOT pay PER search though. THAT would blow
Simple solution that will probably get me flamed...
Charge a membership fee for upgraded GFY VIP Membership that allows Search ability and possibly other future features (private areas, marketplace). But other perks don't matter, Search does. Perhaps $15-$25 a year. This will help alleviate the cost of maintaining gfy functionality and hiring more silicon valley techies.
You think those advertising spots on GFY are free?
Taboo, charging for the use of the search feature does not bother me all that much. Everyone is charging for something. I do hate to see the "free" use of so many sites be replaced by monthly fees. Hell, I am still stuck back in the 90's when Art Bell's archives were free, Napster was for everyone (free of charge), and developers were breaking down your door to offer you free usage of their latest programs without restrictions. Remember when Microsoft didn't charge for tech support?
Oh, the good old days!
What does get to me is the thought of GFY idiots getting free use of the search feature strictly because they have a large number of posts beside their names. BOO TO THAT !!!!
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