finally weeeeee

Lower the bar to 1200 intelligent posts. Not 10,000 worthless posts :Graucho

Even better, give access only to Veteran 2001-2002 members :banana

I used to seach for myself every morning :1orglaugh

Yeah, it shouldn't be by number of posts. That will encourage all these newbies and trolls to post-bot their way into the seach feature. Criteria should be only if you've been registered 6 months or more.

Lens,

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. :winkwink:

Good suggestions :thumbsup

thats great news

Good idea, Taboo !

tb

Sweet! That's music to my ears :)

That sounds great!


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50


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50 Searches

EDIT: FACK!

53 - that's cool Lensman - thanks!

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Good stuff.this should be pinned:glugglug

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...

6mnts and 2000 posts it good.

Let's hope others agree. :winkwink:

Good look'n Lenz :thumbsup

fuck ya

cool:thumbsup

this is a pic of the actual box it will run on

http://www.lecad.uni-lj.si/documents...j/pdrm0167.jpg

a lot of people have been waiting for the search function. Good stuff :thumbsup

Great news!!

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And then ya cancharge a yearly subscription right:)?

nope 10k is good and I like your ideal also :thumbsup

Just wanted to add a big :thumbsup as it's sorely needed.

The x number of posts thing is a great idea too. It wouldn't even need to be high to keep the crap from eating up resources be it DOS attacks or bots.

Nice! I can't wait to search for "party goat" every morning. :Graucho

Can't wait:thumbsup

Finally! :thumbsup

yay :thumbsup

thanks!

WTF kind of database are they using anyway???

Microsoft access????

Great lens!
good luck :winkwink:

That's good news:)

I am sure your tech has already read this, but it might give him some ideas to read what other large forum admins have done to deal with the search problem:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111239

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.

Cool, and thanks for the work you put into GFY. :thumbsup There are those who do appreciate it.

how about people that joined GFY from the
very begining??
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throw me a bone here :1orglaugh

p i m p

:1orglaugh

looks just like a kid at christmas.

Yeeeeee!!!!:thumbsup

Good things Lens, I cant wait to be able to search :thumbsup