search still sucks a huge one

go to tv and search thread titles for atlantis
the season 5 thread is no where to be found even though it's been less than 2 weeks since it was last posted to

I just received 5 e-mail notifications from the last message. I've received 2 e-mails before (rarely), but never 5.

i would assume the search indexing starts from oldest to newest

I aim to please. ;)

Hey, that seems like it worked. Thanks!

it's the same problems this site has had with search for pretty much the entire time I've been coming here

As previously noted, the search function was screwy because the search indexes were being rebuilt. Since the forum is so large, it's got to index 5 million posts.... that takes a lot of time. It should be good now though, although I won't be able to verify that it completed until I get back to my desk on Friday.

It was one of the things being worked on, and it SHOULD be fixed. However, since we switched from a fulltext search to vB search, it will undoubtedly be different. It should be faster and produce better results.

That is correct, so people should have had more problems when searching for current stuff.

Love the multi-quotes!

Yeah, but the machocist in me liked doing it manually.

Yeah, it's pretty much worthless. There were a couple of threads I was looking to update, and just gave up after a few fruitless searches.

I just got into the office from the weekend, and am now able to check how the search index is doing. It looks like it stalled at the 95% mark, which means that the last 5% of all posts aren't in the index. I'll try to schedule a time to re-do the process.

Why can I see X's obnoxious avatar (and, seemingly, just his) even though I have avatars turned off? I just verified that they're off.

Might be some sort of glitch, or maybe some sort of feature (maybe there's some sort of setting where you see admin avatars even if they're off.) Can you see mine?

I just turned mine off and can't see either X's or pilot's, so it doesn't seem to be standard behavior.

:banana:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...rn_Leghorn.png

I say,

inserting links?
 

before the changes, you had two boxes pop up when you went to insert a link. the first let you custom name the link and the 2nd was for the link itself. only the 2nd comes up now. is there no way to customize the link names anymore?

There used to be a button for guided mode and expert mode. I'm not seeing that. What I would do now is this....

Highlight the text that you want to be the anchor (or the name as you put it) and then hit that button and type in the link. Does that work for you?

IB-Dick,

FYI, this is probably the most bandwidth-consuming time of the day, and the forum is acting a little slow. Just to let you know. Might want to watch a few things and see how the forum handles the queries. :D

Also, love the new features. The edited link is also helpful and quick reply posting without reloading the entire page. :up:

let's see...

yup, that worked. kinda like the old way, but such is life :)

Yay, we're back!

Same here. Glad we're back.

I did a bit of a tutorial on this, might help someone a little.

It was answering a question on how I posted mu links with a little silver 'link' button. But it covers the of making links in general pretty thoroughly.

So basically if you simply post a link to google with the Link button. Type anything you want in between the brackets in the URL 'call' or BBCode, highlighted in red above and below.

You will notice when you post a link with the 'link' button the section you can edit is ALREADY highlighted, so literally when you post the link, simply hit the 'delete' key once, and type anything you like. Even if you don't see the cursor just type what custom word you want for the link and it will work every time.

[ URL="http://www.google.com/"]http://www.google.com/[/URL]

The part highlighted in red can be anything, including an image call as covered above.

What was that all about?

The forum, and other parts of the site, were down for a couple hours late last night. All we got was a "database error" message when we tried to click into the forum.

Yeah, there's a whole Drink-Man strip devoted to it, NoirFan. Keep up!

We've been having network wide firewall problems. I've checked reports from the new database server we're on at every hour of the day, and we put the server under a load to see how it would effect the forum. The database is doing great.

I'll keep my eyes open for that button that lets you change between the modes.

I knew the site was slow last night, but I didn't know there were database errors. I know a db server crashed last night, but not this one. Maybe they did some work on it. How long was it like that?

I'd say at least an hour or two, and perhaps longer. I don't know specifically since I gave up trying to access the forum.

I'd like to guess it was down from about 8 to 10:30 ish PST that I was getting database errors.

It was down from at about least midnight to after 1:30ish am EST.

Thanks guys, that is the same time the other sites were having DB issues. The problem should be fixed, and hopefully this won't happen for a while.

Site's going a little slow though :(

Forum is still way, way slow in loading pages.

Yeah, the site is choking hard...

Yep, ridiculously slow..

Database error again for awhile.

Yup, had the database error for about 30-45 minutes.

It's once again fixed. I just had a meeting with the serve guys and they say that the problem should be fixed for good.

yesh

what.. did you 'upgrade' us from oracle to ms sql?
;)

No it's not. Still moving slow as hell.