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What happened to the search feature?
- Thread starter J1M
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curry
Arcane
it's a distant memory
Tal mentioned in another thread they turned it off to lesson the server load. We can probably get it back after we make the fund drive.
racofer
Thread Incliner
Future DLC.
The files are already on the disc.
deus101
Never LET ME into a tattoo parlor!
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The "I'm feeling lucky" feature would gain new, unexpected dimensions.
deus101
Never LET ME into a tattoo parlor!
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Like.....internet Russian roulette.
The terrorists are holding the search feature on ransom. Are you bad enough dude to defeat them?
Just send more money to DU's whoring server fund and stop asking questions, dammit.
How could this be ? I thought that changing to XenForo was going to solve all our problems...
It did, for a short while. But it was never expected to be a long-term solution on a site with as much activity as the Codex. We need more powah and that's all there is to it. Optimization of the existing server has been pushed to the limit and no further upgrades are possible.
gromit
Arcane
Can you disable the previews when hovering over a link? It's one of the only bits of JS in the system that ADDS to the load instead of reducing it.
circ
Arcane
Throw out JS and go back to 1990 internets. NO MORE JEWTUBE. SUCK IT.
gromit
Arcane
(Potentially) pop-up dialogs for stuff like glancing at a user profile-in-brief, and in-line replies. All depending on if they were slim in implementation, obviously. In the case of in-line replies, it could mean the difference between asking the server to retrieve all the information on a given page and running it through umpteen preprocessors and a big, fat, header-to-footer template, as opposed to selectively querying for new results and adding them (as well as your new submission) to the bottom, calling only on the per-post templates.
Of course, if you click through to the "full version" of a profile, or refresh the entire thread, all you've done is ask extra work of the server, before proceeding to do what you were going to do anyway, without it. Hell of a caveat.
Of course, if you click through to the "full version" of a profile, or refresh the entire thread, all you've done is ask extra work of the server, before proceeding to do what you were going to do anyway, without it. Hell of a caveat.
Micmu
Magister
Not to mention it's useless and incredibly annoying if you leave mouse parked in the wrong place while scrolling.
Disable gromit instead, I hear that would reduce the server load a lot.
gromit
Arcane
Must be that "new math" I keep hearing about.
Preview posts actually helps to keep the load down, if you think about it.
gromit
Arcane
I sincerely doubt they do. I'm convinced it's a shit feature through-and-through.
I know there are some threads with very non-descriptive titles floating around right now, but in most cases, how much more can you get from a preview of the first post, the length of an oversize "tweet," that you couldn't glean from the title and author alone? How many times a day does someone linger over a link for 0.2s while having every intent to click it anyway, or none to click at all from the start?
It will send that request every time you click a link to go to a forum, unless you mouseover, click, and either mouseout or hit the next page in the space of a quarter second. Even if the feature was useful, the unintentional uses may outweigh the "full-page loads" that are saved.
To its credit, it keeps each preview in the html once loaded, so that particular request can only happen once per-thread per-pageview. And, to be fair, I wrote that last post while still under the impression that the hover-previews could provide a preview of the last post. Since it's always the first, it hopefully takes advantage of the consistency and caches the preview at the time of submission / editing.
I know there are some threads with very non-descriptive titles floating around right now, but in most cases, how much more can you get from a preview of the first post, the length of an oversize "tweet," that you couldn't glean from the title and author alone? How many times a day does someone linger over a link for 0.2s while having every intent to click it anyway, or none to click at all from the start?
It will send that request every time you click a link to go to a forum, unless you mouseover, click, and either mouseout or hit the next page in the space of a quarter second. Even if the feature was useful, the unintentional uses may outweigh the "full-page loads" that are saved.
To its credit, it keeps each preview in the html once loaded, so that particular request can only happen once per-thread per-pageview. And, to be fair, I wrote that last post while still under the impression that the hover-previews could provide a preview of the last post. Since it's always the first, it hopefully takes advantage of the consistency and caches the preview at the time of submission / editing.
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