Originally Posted by Randy Petersen

The problem occurred when a member tried to search for the term "miles" on FlyerTalk. With nearly 5.5 million posts on this board, you can imagine the shear number of pages it was trying to load at once per this search request. Actually as it turned out, several members were doing the same. While we're not sure why anyone would search for such a generic term on this board, it nonetheless wrecked some havoc. We've discovered the reasons it happened and have now written in additional filters to try and alleviate similar things in the future. Most techies will tell you that open searches such as this are the real bane of a bulletin board.

Hopefully members will use the search function is a more logical way to find information, that or simply flag down a volunteer moderator for help.