Originally Posted by tony404 (Post 13235570)

Jim you must have a magic connection lol because it times out on me and can be as slow as when I was on a 56k modem.The increase in speed since the search has been disabled is amazing.

Originally Posted by BoyAlley (Post 13234251)

Originally Posted by RawAlex (Post 13235061)

Jim, seriously, stick with video editing, because you are pretty much failing on network and server operations. have you not noticed all the double posts, the lost posts, the threads that get "hijacked" because the original post never actually gets posted? That is database / network / server style issues that have nothing to do with anyone's connection to the internet or ISP. The proof is in the pudding, almost everyone here is saying that the board is much faster without the search running.

The question still stands. I can understand you or anyone else coming in and making maybe 1 or 2 searches a day. But there is nowhere near enough normal searches to slow the board down. That would suggest that either people are coming here and searching for their names and program names every hour of every day, are using search to find replies because they can't remember what threads they are posting in, or because people are running abusive bots that are searching all day and all night for stuff.

I know and understand the normal uses of search, but apparently it must be getting abused rather heavily for the mods to feel it would be better to turn it off.

Originally Posted by Billy-HiRise (Post 13235865)

Heck Alex.. whats a search feature : )

Originally Posted by RawAlex (Post 13235155)

pap, how about you explain it to me then? I have been doing chat boards and such for almost 30 years. I have never been in a position where I need to use a search function 20 or 30 times a day. I would really like to know why it is getting hit so hard.

Originally Posted by martinsc (Post 13234269)

i used the "new posts" search a lot....

Originally Posted by Xplicit (Post 13235166)

I use it to followup my own posts/replies without having to search through tons of pages.

Originally Posted by RawAlex (Post 13235178)

Perhaps we need a "program news" board here, so that programs could better explain themselves to people and keep things current?

Originally Posted by tony404 (Post 13235570)

Jim you must have a magic connection lol because it times out on me and can be as slow as when I was on a 56k modem.The increase in speed since the search has been disabled is amazing.

Originally Posted by RawAlex (Post 13236082)

Pap, that is my thought as well, bots. I suspect that some people are running bots just looking for new threads to post garbage comments into automatically to spam their sigs (and collect their pay), and also from the paranoid people who have to check their name, their program name, each of their domain names and 101 other things every hour to make sure that nobody is talking bad about them.

Whatever it is, I can only say that since this change has come in, the board has not timed out, posting is easy, and there also seems to be less crap on the board. All good, I guess.

Originally Posted by RawAlex (Post 13236082)

Whatever it is, I can only say that since this change has come in, the board has not timed out, posting is easy, and there also seems to be less crap on the board. All good, I guess.