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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
Have you seen the "Now That's Funny" forum? If there was ever a forum that should have a post limit, THAT is the one.
Thousands upon thousands of useless posts in the same thread, each one more un-funny than the previous. The Café database just filled to the brim with nonsense. No wonder the search engine is a thing of the past. Limiting a thread to 100 posts would save a lot of disk space and searching cpu. It can be done. It should be done. Threads should absolutely have a limit. All of them. The data in a thread with 1000 posts becomes mostly useless. Especially now that searching is disabled. If threads were locked automatically, the old ones could be archived and removed from search indexes unless the queries specifically asked to include archived threads. It would be a good test of the concept to limit certain forums to have a post limit for a proof of concept. The "Now That's Funny" forum would be a great candidate.
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Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
Frank, the volume in posts in the Now that's funny forum or any other forum is not restricting the data base and has nothing to do with the reduction in search capabilities.
You said Search has been disabled. That is not true. The only change in the search feature is that you must stipulate a specific forum rather than searching everywhere. With that restriction in place, it eliminates the need for the engine to go to the Now that's funny forum so the volume there really doesn't matter. If you don't find anything of use in that forum, just don't go there.
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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
I can see that it's not restricting when you're searching on a particular forum.
There is some useful info in that forum, but obviously a small portion compared with the thousands of unuseful comments that need to be searched thru. a full Caf� search is turn off due to the time it takes to do that kind of search, isn't it?
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Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
With a full search capability, yes. The engine would have to go through all of those topics looking for the search criteria. It's not just the size of the forum however. The system slows down when multiple people are trying to full search at the same time. Actually, restricting the search to specific forums in this case would be a good thing. You wouldn't go looking for a coin effect in Now that's funny for example.
"Now that's funny" isn't the only large forum however. Look at not magical still. Restricting member contributions isn't the way the Café works.
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TheAmbitiousCard Eternal Order Northern California 13425 Posts |
Actually, you would not be restricting member contributions. it would just have to be in a new thread.
A benefit to that is older info, which is often repetitive or outdated would simply get archived and a user could opt to search thru that info or not. I understand your point about "restricting contributions isn't the way the Café works" but already searching thru all forums doesn't work, so in a sense, the Café isn't really working. This is, in large part, an issue by allowing an unlimited number of contributions in any given thread. You're giving up the ability to do an exhaustive search by allowing unlimited posts in a thread and not archiving old info. So, yes, the Café is restricting member participation given the current state of things.
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Dave Scribner Assistant Manager Lake Hopatcong, NJ 4849 Posts |
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