Originally Posted by
Wilbur
May we please have the old search engine back as an option for those of us who want to perform searches rather than act as a part of a distributed, unpaid software debugging team?
Seriously, this search engine is very poor, and we already had a perfectly fine search engine. Feel free to have the current one as a beta engine or something, but please give us back the ability to perform searches!
Sadly, the old search engine is no longer an option, as I indicated in
this post.
In the way of a recap, while the old search performed well in that it provided complete and accurate results sorted properly, it was ultimately not built to withstand the amount of traffic FT generates and therefore was causing an entire system failure. Near the end of it's life, the old search wasn't only causing issues for those who used it in the form of very delayed search results, but was actually causing problems for every visitor as it was causing the entire site to load slowly, to the point of timing out.
So, the problem is, if we were to revert to the old search tomorrow, we would likely instantly experience slow load times on every page of FT for every member. So slow, in fact, that it could take minutes to load a page -- if the page loads at all.
Clearly, this is not acceptable.
Having said that, the current condition of search isn't acceptable either and it
is being worked on, though I understand that is probably difficult to believe at times
