Performance Test Feedback/Search Downtime
Mar 2, 2005, 7:14 am
#46
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 422
Originally Posted by nd_eric_77
No offense, but has anybody noticed how limiting it is when Search is down? If for no other reason than the "old hands" can't criticisize the "newbies" for having asked the same question everybody else did. 
Mar 2, 2005, 7:35 am
#48
Join Date: Apr 1999
Location: Cambridge, MA 02138
Posts: 2,104
How about leave the "New Threads" feature but disable regular searching? I do realize that "New Threads" is just a search function itself, but this would still allow some functionality without overtaxing the search function (and slowing the board down).
I really find FT to hard to use without the "New Threads" feature. I just can't take the time to click on every board to see what is up.
I really find FT to hard to use without the "New Threads" feature. I just can't take the time to click on every board to see what is up.
Mar 2, 2005, 9:19 am
#49
Join Date: May 2000
Posts: 473
Originally Posted by steve100
How about leave the "New Threads" feature but disable regular searching? I do realize that "New Threads" is just a search function itself, but this would still allow some functionality without overtaxing the search function (and slowing the board down).
I really find FT to hard to use without the "New Threads" feature. I just can't take the time to click on every board to see what is up.
I really find FT to hard to use without the "New Threads" feature. I just can't take the time to click on every board to see what is up.
Mar 4, 2005, 7:21 pm
#51
Join Date: Feb 2001
Programs: IHG Diamond, HH Diamond, BW Diamond Select, Accor Silver, Marriott Gold
Posts: 4,232
Originally Posted by drtravix
I'd much rather be without search than be without FT.
Because google won't sort by date, searches that take 1 second here can take minutes or hours to do manually on google, or may not even be there. It would be better if FT were down completely for a week to fix the problem (if that's what it takes) than have this semi-usable shadow of FT running for weeks.
Mar 7, 2005, 3:51 pm
#52
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2002
Programs: UA Platinum MM; DL Silver; IHG Diamond Ambassador; Hilton Gold; Marriott Gold
Posts: 24,251
Originally Posted by Kremmen
FT without search is basically unusable. . . .
It's too bad, because FlyerTalk, with search features enabled, is such a great website. While I (somewhat) understand the technical reason why the search features are presently unavailable and certainly do not blame anybody at FlyerTalk, I am afraid that the present version of this site is just a shadow of its former self. Here's hoping that the search features will be restored with all due haste, following an expeditious resolution of the security issues that compel their present disablement.
Mar 7, 2005, 3:58 pm
#53
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: El Paso, TX, USA
Programs: Kicked out of all of them
Posts: 32,554
If search is so slow, why not archive some of the older threads?
Anything older than 18 months gets archived, and for OMNI, anything older than a year.
The old stuff gets stored in something called http://archive.flyertalk.com
Maybe that can speed up the process
Anything older than 18 months gets archived, and for OMNI, anything older than a year.
The old stuff gets stored in something called http://archive.flyertalk.com
Maybe that can speed up the process